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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 3
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 17 cm
Description
An outbreak of increasingly bizarre crimes has hit London-and, fittingly, come to the attention of the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Art vandalism, an exploding suspect, pornography, rat poison, Gilbert and Sullivan musicals, secret societies ... and not a single suspect in sight. The killer they're chasing has a dark history, a habit of staying hidden, and time itself on his side. Detectives John May and Arthur Bryant may have finally met their match, and...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 4
Publication Date
2006
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
North London Peculiar Crimes Unit may soon close? It might--unless cantankerous, elderly detectives John May and Arthur Bryant can solve the old Leicester Square Vampire case. Oh, and they must also find a bizarre new serial killer nicknamed "The Highwayman" (he wears a black cape, a mask, a three-cornered hat, and rides a black stallion) who's killing B-list celebrities in strange ways.
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 5
Description
Heading for the International Spiritualists' Convention, British police detectives John May and Arthur Bryant (who are known for using unorthodox methods to solve crimes) find themselves stranded by a massive blizzard along with dozens of other motorists. But the cold weather isn't all that May and Bryant have to worry about in their 5th book after they learn that a serial killer may be stranded on the same roadway and that one of the members of their...
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 6
Description
Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's oldest watering holes.
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 10
Publication Date
2013.
Physical Desc
351 pages; 22 cm
Description
Two of London's sharpest minds within the Peculiar Crimes Unit are faced with one of the most bizarre cases of their careers as an ill-timed death, a powerful curse, a crazy dowager, and a dead photographer lead them into a world of madness, codes, and the secret of London's strangest relic.
6) Wild chamber
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 14
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May investigate the baffling case of a girl strangled but peacefully laid out in a private, locked garden, the first in a series of similar murders in London's parks.
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 15
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
pages cm.
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"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 house's owner - a penniless, dope-smoking aristocrat - is intent on selling the estate (complete with its own hippy encampment) to a secretive millionaire but the weekend has only just started when the millionaire goes missing and murder is on the cards."
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 16
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When a man is found hanging upside down inside a willow tree on Hampstead Heath, surrounded by a baffling assortment of occult objects, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to investigate. Was this a botched Satanic ritual pulled off by bored teenagers, a gang initiation, or the work of a mastermind with grander intentions? Bryant and May set off for answers and soon discover that London is a city steeped in blood and magic. When another body is...
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Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 17
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 22 cm.
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Description
"When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in the brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler. On a spring morning in London's Strand, the Speaker of the House of Commons is accidentally killed by a van unloading oranges and lemons for the annual St. Clement Danes festival. It's an absurd...
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 18
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Ninety-one-year-old Alice Hoffman died alone in her top-floor flat. Social services say she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their suspicions. Mrs. Hoffman was not as innocent as she appeared. A former government security expert, she had once worked for their own unit, but there's no one left who can remember her. And when they uncover a link between her and...
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Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 22 cm
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"It's getting late. I want to share my knowledge of London with you, if I can remember any of it. So says Mr. Arthur Bryant. He and John May are the nation's oldest serving detectives. Who better to reveal its secrets? Why does this rainy, cold, gray city capture so many imaginations? Could its very unreliability hold the key to its longevity? The detectives are joined by their boss, Raymond Land, and some of their most disreputable friends, each...


