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author spotlight
Chrisopher Fowler is the acclaimed author of fifteen previous novels, including the award-winning Full Dark House and five other Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries: White Corridor, The Water Room, Seventy-Seven Clocks, Ten Second Staircase, and The Victoria Vanishes. He lives in London, where he is at work on his next Peculiar Crimes Unit novel.
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The Victoria Vanishes
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.00
Murder doesn’t get more peculiar than this. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs. What’s even more peculiar, Arthur Bryant happened to see the latest victim only moments before her death—at a pub torn down eighty years ago! It’s only the beginning of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.00
Murder doesn’t get more peculiar than this. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs. What’s even more peculiar, Arthur Bryant happened to see the latest victim only moments before her death—at a pub torn down eighty years ago! It’s only the beginning of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Full Dark House
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
A bomb rips through present-day London, tragically ending the crime-fighting partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May begun more than a half-century ago during another infamous bombing: the Blitz of World War II. Desperately searching for clues to the saboteur’s identity, May finds the notes his old friend kept of their... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
A bomb rips through present-day London, tragically ending the crime-fighting partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May begun more than a half-century ago during another infamous bombing: the Blitz of World War II. Desperately searching for clues to the saboteur’s identity, May finds the notes his old friend kept of their... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Water Room
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
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 mythology. Linking... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
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 mythology. Linking... Read more >
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White Corridor
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
It’s the classic locked-room mystery—a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside a sealed morgue populated only by the dead and to which only four PCU members had a key. To make matters worse, the Unit has been shut down for a forced “vacation,” and Bryant and May are stuck... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
It’s the classic locked-room mystery—a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside a sealed morgue populated only by the dead and to which only four PCU members had a key. To make matters worse, the Unit has been shut down for a forced “vacation,” and Bryant and May are stuck... Read more >
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Ten Second Staircase
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
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 stallion. Whoever the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
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 stallion. Whoever the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Seventy-Seven Clocks
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
A mysterious stranger in outlandish Edwardian garb defaces a Pre-Raphaelite painting in the National Gallery. Then a guest at the exclusive Savoy Hotel is fatally bitten by a marshland snake. Over the next several days, an outbreak of increasingly bizarre crimes will hit London—and, fittingly, come to the attention of the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $13.00
A mysterious stranger in outlandish Edwardian garb defaces a Pre-Raphaelite painting in the National Gallery. Then a guest at the exclusive Savoy Hotel is fatally bitten by a marshland snake. Over the next several days, an outbreak of increasingly bizarre crimes will hit London—and, fittingly, come to the attention of the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Bryant & May on the Loose
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $25.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $25.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Water Room
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $6.99
They are detection’s oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even ordinary men and women to the... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $6.99
They are detection’s oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even ordinary men and women to the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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White Corridor
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $24.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $24.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Full Dark House
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $6.99
Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new 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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $6.99
Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new 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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Seventy-Seven Clocks
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Water Room
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $6.99
They are detection’s oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even ordinary men and women to the... Read more >
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $6.99
They are detection’s oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even ordinary men and women to the... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Ten Second Staircase
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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White Corridor
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $13.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Victoria Vanishes
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $15.00
It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs—including one torn down eighty years ago. What’s more, Arthur Bryant happened to see one of the victims only moments before her death at the pub that doesn’t... Read more >
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $15.00
It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs—including one torn down eighty years ago. What’s more, Arthur Bryant happened to see one of the victims only moments before her death at the pub that doesn’t... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Bryant & May on the Loose
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $25.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $25.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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