![]() ![]() “It offers unrivaled facilities for getting rid of unwanted corpses,” he says. Lovesey is careful to remind us that Bath holds hidden secrets behind its gracious Georgian architecture. The runners he follows are an interesting cross section of the citizenry, from Maeve Kelly, a primary schoolteacher whose drab life gets its sparkle after she takes up running, to an illegal immigrant named Spiro, who escapes virtual slavery in his native Albania only to find himself running for his life in Bath. ![]() But Lovesey knows his city intimately, and once the 5,000 or so entrants are off and running - along with “the pirates, pantomime horses, fairies, carrots, bananas, spacemen, dinosaurs” and other costumed entrants running for the fun of it - he treats us to lovingly detailed descriptions of the civic highlights. That classically designed English city might not seem like the ideal setting for a marathon. To mark the 50th anniversary of the novel, Lovesey has written a companion piece, THE FINISHER (Soho Crime, 353 pp., $27.95), about another footrace and another murder that becomes a baffling case for his enduring series detective, Peter Diamond of the Bath police. ![]() This eccentric sport inspired Peter Lovesey’s first murder mystery, “ Wobble to Death,” originally published in 1970. ![]() In Victorian England, it was a grueling, six-day speedwalking race, a fad that also became popular in America. ![]()
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