$27.07
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2008
Summary
British fiction’s most enigmatic detectives since Holmes & Watson return in their fifth outrageously entertaining and intriguing investigation…
The unthinkable has happened at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and everyone who works there is a suspect. With the exception of Arthur Bryant and John May that is, for the eccentric detectives who run London’s strangest crime division are stranded on a desolate snowbou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553817980 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553817981 |
| Author: | Christopher Fowler |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Bryant & May |
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Critics Review
Quirky, touching, profound and utterly original…a gripping page-turner.
Quirky, touching, profound and utterly original…a gripping page-turner. – PETER JAMES
Invests the traditions of the Golden Age of detective fiction with a tongue-in-cheek post-modernism. * Evening Standard *
Delicious stuff, delivered with all the assurance we have come to expect from Fowler. – Barry Forshaw * amazon.co.uk *
Slow burning, adroitly plotted, with a distinct atmosphere. * Guardian *
Another triumph for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. * Independent on Sunday *
Eccentric arcana and characteristic sang-froid…satisfyingly good – Financial Times
Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowler was the multiple award-winning author of almost fifty novels and short story collections, including the celebrated Bryant & May mysteries. His other novels include Roofworld, Spanky, The Sand Men and Hot Water. He has also written two acclaimed memoirs, Paperboy (winner of the Green Carnation Prize) and Film Freak, plus The Book of Forgotten Authors and Peculiar London, Bryant and May’s singular and eccentric guide to the city. In 2015 Chris was awarded the Crime Writers Association’s coveted ‘Dagger in the Library’ for his body of work. He lived in London and Barcelona. Diagnosed with cancer just as the UK went into lockdown in 2020, Chris died on 2nd March 2023.
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