The Last Detective

There is always something nice about reading the first of a series, even 20 plus years after it was written. It is also fun exploring how the "last detective" begins his cases, just how curmudgeonly he is or isn't, how he deals with adversity, with facts, with speculation. How can you not be taken i......more

A new British mystery series begun---and at the beginning! There is always something nice about reading the first of a series, even 20 years after it was written, seeing how the "last detective" begins his cases, just how curmudgeonly he is or isn't, how he deals with adversity, with facts, with spe......more

The Last Detective is a book that has been on my vast "to be read" list for a very long time. First published in 1992, it won the Anthony Boucher Award for Best Mystery Novel in that year and was considered groundbreaking. Overweight, technophobic, irascible and blunt to the point of rudeness, Peter......more

I've previously read the first Sgt Cribb's historical mystery by Peter Lovesey and enjoyed. For some reason this first of the Peter Diamond series, The Last Detective has sat on my bookshelf for way too long. Peter Diamond was an Inspector in London. After a court case in which he was accused of int......more

''The Last Detective' is the first in a series. It was published in 1991, and it features the 41-year-old English Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond. He is overweight, hates computers and scientific methods, and he wears a brown trilby over a bald head with a silver fringe. He strikes many of hi......more