CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded For octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May, it seems retirement is now the only option... The Bryant & May novels have been multiple award-winners - and a television series is currently in development with John Hannah's Clerkenwell Films (producers of Rebus).

In every detectives life there are cases that cant be discussed, and throughout the Bryant & May novels there have been mentions of some of these such as the Deptford Demon or the Little Italy Whelk Smuggling Scandal.Now Arthur Bryant has decided to open the files on eleven of these previously unseen investigations that required the collective genius and unique modus operandi of Arthur Bryant and John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit - investigations that range from different times (London during the Great Smog) and a variety of places: a circus freak show, on board a London Tour Bus and even a yacht off the coast of Turkey.And in addition to these eleven classic cases, readers are also given a privileged look inside the Peculiar Crimes Unit (literally, with a cut away drawing of their offices), a guide to the characters of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, and access to the contents of Arthur Bryants highly individual library.

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, but the elderly detective has already lost the funeral urn of an old friend. Could he be losing his mind as well? Then it becomes clear that a number of women have met their ends in London pubs. It seems a silent, secret killer is at work, striking in full view...and yet nobody has a clue how, or why - or where he''ll attack next. The likeliest suspect seems to be a mental patient with a reason for killing. But knowing who the killer is and catching him are two very different propositions. As their new team at the Peculiar Crimes Unit goes in search of a madman, the octogenarian detectives ready themselves for the pub crawl of a lifetime, and come face to face with their own mortality.

Un atentado con bomba en Londres mata al detective octogenario Arthur Bryant. Para su compañero, John May, su pérdida significa el fin de una amistad de más de medio siglo.Buscando pistas, May investiga las notas de su amigo sobre su primer caso y pronto se da cuenta de que el pasado ha vuelto... con intenciones asesinas. La representacion de Orfeo en el infierno, varias decadas atras, fue el detonante de una serie de crimenes que arrastro a los jovenes detectives hacia un macabro misterio. Londres, entonces bajo el yugo de la Gran Guerra, temblaba ante un asesino que acechaba en sus teatros creando su propio drama macabro. Ahora, el siniestro homicida ha vuelto para acabar con uno de ellos... y esta listo para matar a su compañero.

The death of a child and what appears to be a murderous puppet make the perfect case for Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit... Christopher Fowler's enjoying an increasingly high media profile - in demand for crime festivals and gatherings, reviewing for the Financial Times and writing for other media.

Theyve been given just one week to find a killer theyd 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 of the London Underground where their quarry, expertly disguised, has struck again. Their search takes them into the vast labyrinth of tunnels, a subterranean world full of legends and ghost stations, which tie the city together. Edging closer to what lies hidden beneath the city and to the madness that is driving a man to murder Bryant and May are about to uncover a mystery as bizarre as anything they have ever encountered . . .

At London's Peculiar Crimes Unit, in winter, a member of staff has been murdered. But Arthur Bryant and John May, the detectives aren't on hand to solve the crime. They are stranded on a desolate snowbound section of road. As the blizzard worsens, Bryant & May attempt to solve the crime long distance using only their mobile phones.

A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows - the only witness is a small boy who insists the murderer was a masked man on a horse. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors...Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit 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 closure. Worse still, the case of the Leicester Square Vampire, an unsolved mystery from the past that changed both their lives, has returned to haunt them. With a sinister modern-day highwayman bringing terror to the London streets in a series of crimes each more puzzling than the last, the elderly detectives track their suspect to an exclusive private school and a deprived housing estate. But just when they need all the help they can get to uncover a new breed of criminal, the highwayman is hailed a national hero, and the public turns against them...Bryant & May are back on the case in an adventure that explores the dark side of celebrity, the conflicts of youth, age and class, and the peculiar myths of old London.

If you have never entered the curious world of Bryant and May, you're in for a treat.' THE TIMESIt was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it's considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts.Mrs Hoffman was once a government security expert, even though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed. Mrs Hoffman wasn't the only one at risk.Bryant is convinced that other forgotten women with hidden talents are also in danger. And, curiously, they all own models of London Bridge. With the help of some of their more certifiable informants, the detectives follow the strangest of clues in an investigation that will lead them through forgotten alleyways to the city's oldest bridge in search of a desperate killer.

The most consistently brilliant, entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction, the utterly fabulous Christopher Fowler.' Cathi Unsworth, CRIMESQUADIt's a Sunday morning, and the outspoken Speaker of the House of Commons has just been crushed under a mountain of citrus fruit . . .Bizarre accident or something more sinister? The government needs to know because here's a man who knows a thing or two that could compromise its future. Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit should be on the case, however it seems the PCU is no more with one detective is in hospital, the other gone AWOL with the rest of the team having been dismissed. But events escalate, and soon a series of brutal yet undeniably clever killings linked to an old English nursery rhyme threaten society's very foundations and out-of-the-blue the PCU is (temporarily) back in business.And if the two detectives - 'old men in a woke world' - can set aside their differences and discover why some of London's most influential figures are being threatened, they might not only save the unit but also prevent the city from descending into chaos . . .

There's a devil in me...sometimes that spells danger. A teacher loses one of her pupils somewhere in the London Underground. A catwalk model reveals the grisly secret of looking good. Slacker friends are forced into action over an accidental murder. A bomb's aftershock is felt fifty years later. Sex toys become instruments of fate. The suburbs are besieged, star scandals are revealed, epic tragedy turns to triumph and a cry for help flares briefly in the night...Black comedy, high farce, dark revelations...they all go to make up Christopher Fowler's powerful collection of immoral tales.

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 and last caseand how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection. A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer''s identity, May finds his old friend''s notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned...with a killing vengeance. It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limitsand beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London''s theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant''s unorthodox techniques and John May''s dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural--a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them...and is ready to claim the other. Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and a mystery that will keep you guessing, Full Dark House is a witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.

Un atentado con bomba en Londres mata al detective octogenario Arthur Bryant. Para su compañero, John May, su pérdida significa el fin de una amistad de más de medio siglo.Buscando pistas, May investiga las notas de su amigo sobre su primer caso y pronto se da cuenta de que el pasado ha vuelto... con intenciones asesinas. La representacion de Orfeo en el infierno, varias decadas atras, fue el detonante de una serie de crimenes que arrastro a los jovenes detectives hacia un macabro misterio. Londres, entonces bajo el yugo de la Gran Guerra, temblaba ante un asesino que acechaba en sus teatros creando su propio drama macabro. Ahora, el siniestro homicida ha vuelto para acabar con uno de ellos... y esta listo para matar a su compañero.

Un atentado con bomba en Londres mata al detective octogenario Arthur Bryant. Para su compañero, John May, su pérdida significa el fin de una amistad de más de medio siglo. Buscando pistas, May investiga las notas de su amigo sobre su primer caso y pronto se da cuenta de que el pasado ha vuelto con intenciones asesinas.

Richard Tyler es un ejecutivo cinematográfico que trabaja en el agitado barrio londinense del Soho. Acaba de divorciarse y su empleo se ha convertido en un infierno. Ante tanta tensión, su corazón no lo soporta más y un día se para definitivamente. no corre sangre por sus venas. Sus músculos se secan. Su estómago. No segrega fluidos... pero su cuerpo se resiste a dejar de funcionar. Richard Tyler sigue siendo capaz de actuar con capaz normalidad. Es la hora de hacerse un nombre en el Soho y recuperar el tiempo perdido.