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Bryant and May mysteries volume 14
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English
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"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...
2) Wild chamber
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 14
Language
English
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The members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the case again when a dog walker is found dead. The method of the death is odd... the killer had no way in - or out - and the dog is nowhere to be seen. But the 'hows' and 'whys' of the murder are not the only mysteries, and it seems very likely that the killer is preparing to strike again.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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...
Author
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Bryant and May volume 16.5
Language
English
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Arthur Bryant remembers these lost cases as if they were yesterday. Unfortunately, he doesn't remember yesterday, so the newly revealed facts could come as a surprise to everyone, including his exasperated partner John May.
Here, then, is the truth about the Covent Garden opera diva and the seventh reindeer, the body that falls from the Tate Gallery, the ordinary London street corner where strange accidents keep occurring, the consul's son discovered...
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Bryant and May volume 12.5
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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In “Bryant & May in the Field,” a woman is found with her throat slashed in a snowy park, yet the killer managed to escape without leaving any footprints. In “Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman,” a businessman drowns in the pool of a posh club, and the only suspect is a young woman who remains almost too calm during questioning. And in “Bryant & May Ahoy!” the pair go on holiday on a friend’s yacht in Turkey, but Bryant realizes there’s...
6) Strange tide
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
London's most brilliant but unconventional detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, must plumb the depths of a particularly murky mystery. The Peculiar Crimes Unit faces its most baffling case yet -- and if Bryant and May can't rise to the challenge, the entire unit may go under. Near the Tower of London, along the River Thames, the body of a woman has been discovered chained to a stone post and left to drown. Curiously, only one set of footprints...
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 does remember the oddest investigation of his career.. It was late in 1973. As strikes and blackouts ravaged the country during Edward Heath's 'Winter...
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Peculiar Crimes Unit is no more. After years of defying the odds and infuriating their embarrassed superiors, detectives Arthur Bryant and John May have at last crossed the line. This is the twenty-first century and not even their eccentric genius or phenomenal success rate solving London's most unusual crimes can save them. While Bryant takes to his bed, his bathrobe, and his esoteric books, the rest of the team take to the streets looking for...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two small children are playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later the woman is indeed found dead inside St Bride's Church -- a building that no-one else has entered. Unfortunately Bryant & May are refused the case. Instead, there are hired by their greatest enemy to find out why his wife has suddenly started behaving strangely. She's become an...
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 11
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 383 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Romain Curtis sneaks into St. George's Gardens one evening with his date, planning to show her the stars. A centuries-old burial ground, the small, quiet park is the perfect place to be alone. Yet the night takes a chilling turn when the two teenagers spy a strange figure rising from among the tombstones: a corpse emerging from the grave. Suffice it to say that wherever there's a dead man walking, Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are never...
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 333 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the crew of the New Strand Theatre, the play The Two Murderers seems less performance than prophecy when a cast party ends in the shocking death of the theater owner's son. The crime scene is most unusual, even for Bryant and May. In a locked bedroom without any trace of fingerprints or blood, the only sign of disturbance is a gruesome life-size puppet of Mr. Punch laying on the floor. Everyone at the party is a suspect, including the corrupt...
12) Peculiar London
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 18.5
Publisher
Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why does [the] rainy, cold, gray city [of London] 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 an argumentative and unreliable expert in their own dodgy field. Each character gives us a short tour of odd buildings, odder characters, lost venues, forgotten disasters, confusing routes, dubious gossip, illicit...
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
They've been given just one week to find a killer they'd caught once before... 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...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
London is under siege. A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests, and as the anger in the streets detonates, a young homeless man burns to death after being caught in the crossfire between rioters and the police. But all is not as it seems; an opportunistic killer is using the chaos to exact revenge, but his intended victims are so mysteriously chosen that the Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to find a way of stopping him. Using...
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008, c2004
Physical Desc
356 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an elderly lady is found inside her own house with her lungs full of river water, London's Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to search for a logical solution. But the property's next tenant is plagued by mysterious damp patches and the sound of rushing water, and Arthur Bryant decides to divert the investigation into strange new territory. Meanwhile, his partner John May finds himself in hot water when he sets out to save the reputation of an...
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 -- it's business as usual for the Unit's cantankerous founding partners, Arthur Bryant and John May. But this time they have an eyewitness. According to twelve-year-old Luke Tripp, the killer was a cape-clad highwayman atop a black stallion. As implausible as the boy's...
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit and claims the life of Arthur Bryant, his partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity. Before long he is on the trail through Blitz-ravaged London and the Gothic world of the theatre.
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