Bryant and May Off the Rails by Christopher Fowler - ISBN: 9780553819700
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Detectives hunt a phantom killer in London’s dark underground.

Bryant and May Off the Rails

(Bryant & May Book 8)

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2011

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Summary

British fiction’s most enigmatic detectives since Holmes & Watson return in their eighth wickedly entertaining and intriguing investigation…

They’ve been given just one week to find a killer they’d 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 r…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780553819700
ISBN-10:0553819704
Author:Christopher Fowler
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Bantam Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:1 September 2011
Weight:261g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 23mm
Series:Bryant & May
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Critics Review

Do yourself a favour and pick up a novel by Christopher Fowler. The author’s Bryant and May series is proving to be one of the quirkiest and most ingenious pleasures to be found in the genre: atmospheric, sardonically funny and craftily suspenseful – Barry Forshaw * AMAZON.CO.UK *
Outstanding… a golden age mystery… [Christopher] Fowler has few peers when it comes to constructing ingenious plots * Publishers Weekly *
One of the most delightful series around * Library Journal *
Sharp wit, elegant style, and wild imagination * The Boston Globe *
Dazzling * The Denver Post *
Sparkling * The Plain Dealer *

About The Author

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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