Bryant & May : hall of mirrors / Christopher Fowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, Christopher, author.

Series:

Fowler, Christopher. Bryant & May mysteries

A Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery ; [15]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bryant, Arthur (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Bryant, Arthur.

May, John (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

May, John.

May, John (Fictitious character).

Bryant, Arthur (Fictitious character).

Police--England--London--Fiction.

Police.

England--London.

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Murder--Investigation.

Nineteen sixties--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Police--England--London--Fiction.

May, John (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Nineteen sixties--Fiction.

Bryant, Arthur (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Novels.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

414 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Bryant and May

Hall of mirrors

Place of Publication:

New York : Bantam Books, [2018]

Summary:

"London, 1969. With the Swinging Sixties under way, Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good, old-fashioned manor house murder mystery. The critics are mad for Christopher Fowler, his irascible creations Bryant and May, and the Peculiar author's gift for writing classic mysteries with delightfully uncommon twists. Entertainment Weekly calls Fowler "deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive," while The Guardian admires his "splendidly eccentric characters [and] corkscrew plots." This new novel is no exception. As the Swinging Sixties paint dreary London a DayGlo rainbow, detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good old-fashioned manor house mystery. Hard to believe, but even positively ancient sleuths like Bryant and May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit were young once. or at least younger. Flashback to London 1969: mods and dolly birds, sunburst minidresses--but how long would the party last? After accidentally sinking a barge painted like the Yellow Submarine, Bryant and May are relegated to babysitting one Monty Hatton-Jones, the star prosecution witness in the trial of a disreputable developer whose prefabs are prone to collapse. The job for the demoted detectives? Keep the whistle-blower safe for one weekend. The task proves unexpectedly challenging when their unruly charge insists on attending a party at the vast estate Tavistock Hall. With falling stone gryphons, secret passageways, rumors of a mythical beast, and an all-too-real dismembered corpse, the bedeviled policemen soon find themselves with "a proper country house murder" on their hands. Trapped for the weekend, Bryant and May must sort the victims from the suspects, including a hippie heir, a missing millionaire, a blond nightclub singer, and a mystery writer--not to mention Monty himself--and nobody is quite who he or she seems to be"-- Provided by publisher.

London, 1969. The Swinging Sixties are under way: mods and dolly birds, sunburst minidresses. After accidentally sinking a barge painted like the Yellow Submarine, Bryant and May are relegated to babysitting one Monty Hatton-Jones, the star prosecution witness in the trial of a disreputable developer whose prefabs are prone to collapse. They only have to keep the whistle-blower safe for one weekend, but when their unruly charge insists on attending a party at the vast estate Tavistock Hall they're faced with falling stone gryphons, secret passageways, rumors of a mythical beast, and an all-too-real dismembered corpse. Trying to sort the victims from the suspects, Bryant and May discover nobody is quite who he or she seems to be. -- adapted from publisher info

Notes:

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, London, in 2018." -- t.p. verso

ISBN:

9781101887097

1101887095

OCLC:

1037883334