- Audio: W F Howes
- UK & BC: Transworld
- US: Bantam
- Published: 16th July 2009
- Agent: James Wills
Bryant & May – The Victoria Vanishes
Christopher Fowler
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…
Other books by Christopher Fowler
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Word Monkey
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Bryant & May: Peculiar London
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Hot Water
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Bryant & May – London Bridge is Falling Down
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Bryant & May – Oranges and Lemons
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Bryant & May – England’s Finest
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Bryant & May – The Lonely Hour
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Bryant & May – Hall of Mirrors
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
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Little Boy Found
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Bryant & May – Strange Tide
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Bryant & May – Wild Chamber
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Bryant & May – London’s Glory
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The Sand Men
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Bryant & May – The Burning Man
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Nyctophobia
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Bryant & May – The Bleeding Heart
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Bryant & May – The Invisible Code
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Bryant & May – The Memory of Blood
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Bryant & May – Off The Rails
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Bryant & May – On The Loose
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Bryant & May – White Corridor
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Bryant & May – Ten-Second Staircase
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Bryant & May – Seventy-Seven Clocks
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Bryant & May – The Water Room
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Bryant & May – Full Dark House