Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} On the Edge by Lovesey. Peter On The Edge / Dead Gorgeous. Rose and Antonia had a good war. As WAAF plotters they had all the excitement and independence of a difficult and fulfilling job, and all the fun of being two women on an RAF base. But peacetime is a disappointment. Rose’s war-hero husband has turned brutal out. Antonia, bored with her rich manufacturer, wants to move to America with her lover. But what are plotters for, if not to plot? Antonia’s ruthless scheme would give them what they both want. If Rose doesn’t lose her nerve, they could get away with murder. UK Publisher: Century Hutchinson, 1989 US Publisher: Mysterious Press, 1989 UK Paperback: Arrow, 1990 US Paperback: Mysterious Press, 1990 Reissued as Dead Gorgeous by Time Warner Paperbacks, 2002 Latest US Paperback: Soho Press, 2002 ISBN 1-56947-309-9 Latest UK Paperback: Sphere, 2014 ISBN 978-0751553543. “Lovesey is one of the very best of the current generation of crime writers and he controls his plot like clockwork – everything timed to precision so that the final uncertainty is resolved just as the bell tolls … If I were judge I’d pencil this one onto the short list for the ’89 Gold Dagger.” Tim Heald, Evening Standard. “Brilliant is the only word for veteran Peter Lovesey’s latest venture into the macabre … A whipcrack pace, gasps all the way, and yet another winner for Lovesey.” Scotland on Sunday. “Never has Lovesey’s wizardry been so effective as in this tale of the duped and the duper … The story dodges from one unguessable outcome to the next.” Publishers Weekly. “Irrepressible joie de mort.” New York Times Book Review. TV, Film And Radio. A brilliant US sprinter prepares for a unique triple victory at the Moscow Olympics. The exploitation merchants close in and the mental and physical pressures lead to doubts whether she will ever reach her goal. Starring Susan Anton, James Coburn, Leslie Caron, Robert Culp and Curt Jurgens. Screenplay Jon Kohn, from the Peter Lear novel. Director Joseph Sargent. Also adapted as a TV mini-series. Susan Anton had a Golden Globe nomination as New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture. TELEVISION. WAXWORK. Granada Television, 1979. 90 minute play set in Victorian London about a woman condemned to hang for the murder of her husband. Sergeant Cribb investigates in the limited time before the execution. Starring Alan Dobie, Carol Royle and David Waller. Screenplay Pauline Macauley, from the Peter Lovesey novel. Director June Wyndham-Davies. CRIBB (First Series) Granada Television, 1980. Seven one hour plays: this and the second series are frequently repeated on ITV3. In its first year, Cribb grossed the highest takings of any Granada production, outselling Coronation Street , Laurence Olivier Presents and World in Action . Audiences peaked at 12.5 million in the second series. It was sold across the world to more than 40 countries ranging from America’s PBS to Zimbabwe Television. Alan Dobie was nominated as Best Actor in the 1981 Emmy Awards and William Simons was nominated as Best Supporting Actor. In America, Cribb was chosen to launch the long-running Mystery! series on the Public Broadcasting Service. SWING, SWING TOGETHER. Three female students out for a midnight swim witness a body dumped into the river. Cribb and Constable Thackeray investigate and find themselves following the route of Three Men in a Boat . Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, Heather Moray and Ronald Lacey. Screenplay Brian Thompson, from the Peter Lovesey novel. Director June Wyndham-Davies. ABRACADAVER. A series of music hall accidents prompts an investigation by Cribb that uncovers the not so innocent pleasures indulged in by the cream of society. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, Julia Chambers and Patsy Rowlands. Screenplay Bill MacIlwraith, from the Peter Lovesey novel. Director Julian Amyes. THE DETECTIVE WORE SILK DRAWERS. Bare-knuckle fighting is illegal, but the hands on a headless body recovered from the Thames suggest it is going on. A Scotland Yard man goes undercover to investigate. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, David Waller and Norma West. Screenplay Peter Lovesey, from his own novel. Director Alan Grint. THE HORIZONTAL WITNESS. The body of the king of London’s underworld is found in one of his brothels. Cribb discovers a link with a London hospital and as Thackeray has problems ‘of a personal nature’ gets him admitted to Charing Cross Hospital to observe a key criminal. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, David Waller and James Coyle. Screenplay Peter & Jacqueline Lovesey. Director Alan Grint. WOBBLE TO DEATH. A competitor drops dead in a six-day indoor endurance race at the Royal Agricultural Hall and while the show continues the versatile detectives have to decide if it was due to exhaustion, tetanus or strychnine. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, Bobbie Brown and Michael Elphick. Screenplay Alan Plater, from the Peter Lovesey novel. Director Gordon Flemyng. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW. Thackeray is best man at a wedding, but Cribb is suspicious because the bride is 37 years younger than her intended and is wearing a secondhand wedding dress. Her previous elderly husbands seem to have died rather suddenly. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, Charlotte Mitchell and Geoffrey Baylden. Screenplay Peter & Jacqueline Lovesey. Director Oliver Horsbrough. A CASE OF SPIRITS. An investigation of the theft of a valuable painting and a vase leads to a murder enquiry as Cribb and Thackeray are forced to indulge in the Victorian craze for spiritualism and se’ances. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, Judy Cornwell and Clive Swift. Screenplay Arden Winch, from the Peter Lovesey novel. Director Bill Gilmour. CRIBB (Second Series) Granada Television, 1981. MAD HATTER’S HOLIDAY. In Brighton, Cribb and Thackeray have a breath of sea air and solve a gruesome murder. They meet the voyeuristic Mr Moscrop, with a passion for telescopes, and venture into the crocodile tank in the aquarium. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons and Fenella Fielding. Screenplay Bill McIlwraith, from the Peter Lovesey novel. Director June Wyndham-Davies. THE LAST TRUMPET. Jumbo, the largest and most famous elephant in London’s Regent’s Park Zoo, is to be sold to the American, P.T.Barnum. A protest group is formed and it seems they will stop at nothing to keep Jumbo in London. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, David Waller and Joyce Carey. Screenplay Peter & Jacqueline Lovesey. Director Brian Mills. THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE. Cribb gets the royal seal of approval as he investigates a near fatality involving Queen Victoria and a pram containing her grandson. The nursemaid is dismissed, but is this the work of anarchists? Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, Rosalie Crutchley and Jessica Spencer. Screenplay Peter & Director George Spenton-Foster. THE CHOIR THAT WOULDN’T SING. A Christmas episode finds Cribb and Thackeray in a Gloucestershire village investigating the death of a colonel member of the choir. Nobody seems to want to assist the police. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons and Elizabeth Spriggs. Screenplay Peter & Jacqueline Lovesey. Director Mary McMurray. MURDER OLD BOY. The former school captain of a public school organises a selective reunion of distinguished former pupils. Suddenly the old school tie finds another use and the Yard’s help is urgently required. Alan Dobie, William Simons, David Waller and John Carson. Screenplay Peter & Jacqueline Lovesey. Director George Spenton-Foster. INVITATION TO A DYNAMITE PARTY. London is beset by Irish ‘dynamiters’ in 1884 and an attack on one of the royal family is planned. Cribb must infiltrate the terrorist gang and discover the sinister secret submarine. Starring Alan Dobie, William Simons, David Waller and Jeananne Crowley. Screenplay Arden Winch, from the Peter Lovesey novel. Director Alan Grint. Cribb series one and two were published in DVD and video by Acorn Media UK, 2004. www.acornmediauk.com. Questioned by a TV audience of children for the BBC programme In the Limelight with Lesley on 6 June, 1980, The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, revealed that she didn’t see much television, but enjoyed a programme that went out on Sunday evenings about a Victorian policeman called Cribb. TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED. Anglia Television, 1982. A MAN WITH A FORTUNE. An American called Smith travels to London with the ambition of researching his family tree and finds some unsuspected relatives. Starring Shane Rimmer, Cyd Hayman and Elizabeth Richardson. Screenplay Alan Seymour, from Peter Lovesey’s short story, How Mr Smith Traced His Ancestors. Director Herbert Wise. ENGLISH FILE: TELLING STORIES. Peter introduces and interrupts a dramatisation of his short story to demonstrate techniques of writing. Starring Michael Keating, Jason Rush and Denys Graham. Screenplay Peter Lovesey. Producer David Taft. DEAD GORGEOUS. Carlton Television, 2002. World War II has just ended and two ex-WAAFs meet again by chance and agree that the peace holds little excitement and their husbands are a dead loss. They think up an ingenious way of making the dead loss a reality. Starring Helen McCrory, Fay Ripley, Ron Cook and Loyd Owen. Screenplay Andrew Payne, from the novel On the Edge , by Peter Lovesey. Director Sarah Harding. ROSEMARY & THYME. Carnival Television, 2003-2007. Peter was story consultant for this light-hearted series about two gardeners turned sleuths. Starring Pam Ferris, Felicity Kendal. Screenplays by various writers including Clive Exton, Peter Spence, David Joss Buckley, Stephen Gallagher and Simon Brett. Directors Brian Farnham, Simon Langton. Producer Brian Eastman. RADIO. ABRACADAVER. BBC Saturday Night Theatre, 1973. For synopsis see TV production. Starring Frank Windsor, John Hollis, Helen Worth, William Eedle and Rolf Lefebre. Adapted by Geoffrey M Matthews. Producer David H. Godfrey. WOBBLE TO DEATH. BBC Saturday Night Theatre, 1975.