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Bryant and May mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, “a new master of the classical detective story,”* brings back crime detection’s oddest—and oldest—couple to solve the ultimate locked room mystery.
It’s an “impossible” crime—a member...
It’s an “impossible” crime—a member...
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
London’s craftiest and boldest detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are back in this deviously twisting mystery of black magic, madness, and secrets hidden in plain sight.
When a young woman is found dead in the pews of St. Bride’s Church—alone and showing no apparent signs of trauma—Arthur Bryant assumes this case will go to the Peculiar Crimes Unit, an eccentric team tasked with solving...
When a young woman is found dead in the pews of St. Bride’s Church—alone and showing no apparent signs of trauma—Arthur Bryant assumes this case will go to the Peculiar Crimes Unit, an eccentric team tasked with solving...
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's oldest watering holes.
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
The indomitable duo of Arthur Bryant and John May, along with the rest of their quirky team, must solve a confounding case with dark ties to the British theater and a killer who may mean curtains for all involved.
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Christopher Fowler has won widespread critical acclaim for his award-winning mysteries featuring the eccentric detective team of Arthur Bryant and John May. The erstwhile members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are left out in the cold when the unit is shut down, but then a beheading prompts their recall. "Fowler's unique blend of the comic and grotesque is on full display in this excellent seventh Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery."-Publishers Weekly, starred...
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Detective John May and his partner, Arthur Bryant, find themselves tackling a bizarre serial killer nicknamed "The Highwayman, " whose crimes bear a striking similarity to other murders spanning London's history.
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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The odd couple of detection—the brilliant but cranky detectives of London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit—return in a tense, atmospheric new thriller that keeps you guessing until the final page. This time Bryant and May are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understanding—and a killer no human hand may be able to stop.
A mysterious stranger in outlandish Edwardian garb defaces a painting in the National Gallery....
A mysterious stranger in outlandish Edwardian garb defaces a painting in the National Gallery....
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler tells the story of both their first and last case—and how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection.
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English
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Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he escaped from a locked room and murdered one of their best and brightest. Now the detectives are being lured down into the darkest recesses of the London Underground where their quarry, expertly disguised, has struck...
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The River Thames is London's most important yet neglected artery. When a young woman is found chained to a post in the tide, no-one can understand how she came to be drowned there. At the Peculiar Crimes Unit, Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves dealing with an impossible crime committed in a very public place. Soon they discover that the river is giving up other victims, but as the investigation extends from the coast of Libya to the nightclubs...
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's getting late. I want to share my knowledge of London with you, if I can remember any of it. So says Mr. Arthur Bryant. He and John May are the nation's oldest serving detectives. Who better to reveal its secrets? Why does this rainy, cold, gray city capture so many imaginations? Could its very unreliability hold the key to its longevity? The detectives are joined by their boss, Raymond Land, and some of their most disreputable friends, each...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 383 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A teenager sees a dead man rise from his grave--and moments later is killed in a sudden hit-and-run accident. Seven ravens housed in the impenetrable fortress that is the Tower of London vanish without a trace--and legend has it that when the ravens leave, the city will fall. Bryant and May must figure out how these two inexplicable, seemingly unrelated mysteries fit together as they begin an investigation that finds them confronting a group of latter-day...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Swinging Sixties paint dreary London with a DayGlo rainbow, detectives Bryant and May find themselves demoted after accidentally sinking a barge painted like the Yellow Submarine. They relegated to babysitting one Monty Hatton-Jones, the prosecution's star witness in the trial of a disreputable developer whose prefabs are prone to collapse. The job? Keep the whistle-blower safe for one weekend. The task proves unexpectedly challenging when...
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a man is found hanging upside down inside a willow tree on Hampstead Heath, surrounded by a baffling assortment of occult objects, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to investigate. Was this a botched Satanic ritual pulled off by bored teenagers, a gang initiation, or the work of a mastermind with grander intentions? Bryant and May set off for answers and soon discover that London is a city steeped in blood and magic. When another body is...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London's most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they'll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer's feet to the fire. In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London's peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest. Enraged by a scandal involving a corrupt financier accused of insider trading, demonstrators are rioting outside the Findersbury Private Bank, chanting,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are back on the case in this whip-smart and wildly twisting mystery, in which a killer in London's parks is proving to be a most elusive quarry. Helen Forester's day starts like any other: Around seven in the morning, she takes her West Highland terrier for a walk in her street's private garden. But by 7:20 she is dead, strangled yet peacefully laid out on the path, her dog nowhere to be found. The only other...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in the brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler. On a spring morning in London's Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is accidentally killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes festival. It's an absurd...
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The brilliant duo of Arthur Bryant and John May uncover a nefarious plot behind the seemingly innocuous death of an old lady--and when the case leads them to the London Bridge, it all comes down on the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Ninety-one-year-old Alice Hoffman died alone in her top-floor flat. Social services say she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their suspicions....
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