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Seventy-Seven Clocks (Bryant & May Book 3) by Fowler Christopher
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Bryant and May
'The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at the time. We got into terrible trouble. Dear fellow, it was one of our most truly peculiar cases. I remember as if it was yesterday.' In fact, Arthur Bryant remembers very little about yesterday, but he doe ...Show more
Strange Tide by Christopher Fowler
Category: Fiction | Series: Bryant and May
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 ver ...Show more
Ten Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries (Bantam Paperback)
It's a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--but this time they "do" have an eyewitness. A twelve-year-old claims the killer was a cape-clad highwayman atop a black ...Show more
Ten-second Staircase Bryant & May #4 by Christopher Fowler
Category: Fiction
An artist is found dead in her own art installation. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors. Two crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May might be able to solve. But Bryant has lost his nerve following a disastrous public appearance, and May is fighting to keep the unit from clos ...Show more
The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
Category: Languages and Reference
A 2017 GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Joyous . . . Readers will love this fascinating book' Cathy Rentzenbrink'A godsend with the present season approaching' Irish Independent'The perfect gift for a book-obsessed friend' Stylist, 50 Unmissable Books for Autumn 2017 Absence doesn't make the heart gro ...Show more
The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
Category: Languages and Reference
A 2017 GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Joyous . . . Readers will love this fascinating book' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'A godsend with the present season approaching' Irish Independent 'The perfect gift for a book-obsessed friend' Stylist, 50 Unmissable Books for Autumn 2017 Absence doesn't make the heart gr ...Show more
The Foot on the Crown by Christopher Fowler
Category: Fiction
It is said a legend is just a beautiful lie... In the second half of the first millennium, the legends say that London disappeared for over four hundred years. We know almost nothing about what happened during that time. But if we could shine a light on the city's ruined walls, we would be in for a sho ...Show more
The Lonely Hour (Bryant and May Book 17) by Christopher Fowler
Category: Crime and Thrillers
In Which Mr May Makes A Mistake And Mr Bryant Goes Into The Dark On a rainy winter night outside a run-down nightclub in the wrong part of London, four strangers meet for the first time at 4-00am. A few weeks later the body of an Indian textile worker is found hanging upside down inside a willow tree o ...Show more
The Memory of Blood by Christopher Fowler
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries (Bantam Paperback)
Christopher Fowler's acclaimed Peculiar Crimes Unit novels crackle with sly wit, lively suspense, and twists as chilling as London's fog. Now the indomitable duo of Arthur Bryant and John May, along with the rest of their quirky team, return to solve a confounding case with dark ties to the British thea ...Show more
The Victoria Vanishes Bryant & May #6 by Christopher Fowler
Category: Fiction
One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where their paths crossed. Even more disturbing, the pub has vanished. Bryant is convinced that he saw them as they were over a century before, bu ...Show more
The Water Room by Christopher Fowler
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries (Bantam Paperback)
How can an elderly recluse drown in a chair in her otherwise dry basement? That's what John May and Arthur Bryant of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit set out to discover in a city rife with shady real estate developers, racist threats, dodgy academicians, and someone dangerously obsessed with Egyptian myth ...Show more