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Full Dark House: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery Kindle Edition
A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer’s identity, May finds his old friend’s notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned . . . with a killing vengeance.
It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limits—and beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London's theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant’s unorthodox techniques and John May’s dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural—a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them . . . and is ready to claim the other.
Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and a mystery that will keep you guessing, Full Dark House is a witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.
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- Publication dateJune 1, 2004
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"Atmospheric, hugely beguiling and as filled with tricks and sleights of hand as a magician's sleeve...it is English gothic at its eccentric best; a combination of Ealing comedy and grand opera: witty, charismatic, occasionally touching and with a genuine power to thrill." —Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat
"A first class thriller, but don't expect any sleep." —Sunday Telegraph
"The writing is as ever fluid and pacey, the characterization deft and the plot fresh and ingenious." —Independent on Sunday?
"The intrigues of the theater murders, which decimate the cast, create considerable drama..... The dynamic between May and Bryant makes for compelling reading"—Publishers Weekly
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A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer's identity, May finds his old friend's notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned...with a killing vengeance.
It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limits--and beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London's theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant's unorthodox techniques and John May's dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural--a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them...and is ready to claim the other.
Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and a mystery that will keep you guessing, Full Dark House is a witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.
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Out With A Bang
It really was a hell of a blast.
The explosion occurred at daybreak on the second Tuesday morning of September, its shock waves rippling through the beer-stained streets of Mornington Crescent. It detonated car alarms, hurled house bricks across the street, blew a chimney stack forty feet into the sky, ruptured the eardrums of several tramps, denuded over two dozen pigeons, catapulted a surprised ginger tom through the window of a kebab shop and fired several roofing tiles into the forehead of the Pope, who was featured on a poster for condoms opposite the tube station.
As the dissonance pulsed the atmosphere it fractured the city’s fragile caul of civilization, recalling another time of London bombs. Then, as now, dust and debris had speckled down through the clear cool air between the buildings, whitening the roads and drifting in the morning sunlight like dandelion seeds. For a split second, the past and the present melted together.
It was a miracle that no one was seriously injured.
Or so it seemed at first.
When Detective Sergeant Janice Longbright received the phone call, her first thought was that she had overslept and missed the start of her shift. Then she remembered that she had just celebrated her retirement from the police force. Years of being woken at odd hours had taught her to focus her attention within three rings of the bedside telephone. Rubbing dreams from her head, she glanced at the clock and listened to the urgent voice in her ear. She rose from the side of her future husband, made her way quietly (as quietly as she could; she was heavy-footed and far from graceful) through the flat, dressed and drove to the offices above Mornington Crescent tube station.
Or rather, she drove to what was left of them, because the North London Peculiar Crimes Unit had, to all intents and purposes, been obliterated. The narrow maze of rooms that had existed in the old Edwardian house above the station was gone, and in its place wavered fragments of burning lath-and-plaster alcoves. The station below was untouched, but nothing remained of the department that had been Longbright’s working home.
She made her way between the fire engines, stepping across spit-sprays from snaked hosepipes, and tried to discern the extent of the damage. It was one of those closed-in mornings that would barely bother to grow light. Grey cloud fitted as tightly over the surrounding terraces as a saucepan lid, and the rain that dampened the churning smoke obscured her view. The steel-reinforced door at the entrance to the unit had been blown out. Firemen were picking their way back down the smouldering stairs as she approached. She recognized several of the officers who were taping off the pavement and road beyond, but there was no sign of the unit’s most familiar faces.
An ominous coolness crept into the pit of her stomach as she watched the yellow-jacketed salvage team clearing a path through the debris. She dug into the pocket of her overcoat, withdrew her mobile and speed-dialled the first of the two numbers that headed her list. Eight rings, twelve rings, no answer.
Arthur Bryant had no voicemail system at home. Longbright had ceased encouraging him to record messages after his ‘static surge’ experiments had magnetized the staff of a British Telecom call centre in Rugby. She tried the second number. After six rings, John May’s voice told her to leave a message. She was about to reply when she heard him behind her.
‘Janice, you’re here.’ May’s black coat emphasized his wide shoulders and made him appear younger than his age (he was somewhere in his eighties—no one was quite sure where). His white hair was hidden under a grey woollen hat. Streaks of charcoal smeared his face and hands, as though he was preparing to commit an act of guerrilla warfare.
‘John, I was just calling you.’ Longbright was relieved to see someone she recognized. ‘What on earth happened?’
The elderly detective looked shaken but uninjured, a thankfully late arrival at the blast scene. ‘I have absolutely no idea. The City of London Anti-terrorist Unit has already discounted political groups. There were no call signs of any sort.’ He looked back at the ruined building. ‘I left the office at about ten last night. Arthur wanted to stay on. Arthur . . .’ May widened his eyes at the blasted building as if seeing it for the first time. ‘He always says he doesn’t need to sleep.’
‘You mean he’s inside?’ asked Longbright.
‘I’m afraid so.’
‘Are you sure he was still there when you left?’
‘No question about it. I rang him when I got home. He told me he was going to work right through the night. Said he wasn’t tired and wanted to clear the backlog. You know how he is after a big case, he opens a bottle of Courvoisier and keeps going until dawn. His way of celebrating. Mad at his age. There was something in his voice . . .’
‘What do you mean?’
May shook his head. ‘I don’t know. As though he wanted to talk to me but changed his mind, that weird hesitation thing he does on the phone. Some officers in an ARV from the Holmes Road division saw him standing at the window at around four thirty. They made fun of him, just as they always do. He opened the window and told them to bugger off, threw a paperweight at them. I should have stayed with him.’
‘Then we would have lost both of you,’ said Longbright. She looked up at the splintered plaster and collapsed brickwork. ‘I mean, he can’t still be alive.’
‘I wouldn’t hold out too much hope.’
A tall young man in a yellow nylon jacket came over. Liberty DuCaine was third-generation Caribbean, currently attached to the unit in a forensic team with two young Indian women, the brightest students from their year. Liberty hated his name, but his brother Fraternity, who was also in the force, hated his more. Longbright raised her hand.
‘Hey, Liberty. Do they have any idea why—’
‘An incendiary device of some kind, compact but very powerful. You can see from here how clean the blast pattern is. Very neat. It destroyed the offices but hasn’t even singed the roof of the station.’ The boy’s impatience to explain his ideas resulted in a staccato manner of speech that May had trouble keeping up with. ‘There are some journalists sniffing around, but they won’t get anything. You OK?’
‘Arthur couldn’t have got out in time.’
‘I know that. They’ll find him, but we’re waiting for a JCB to start moving some of the rafters. They haven’t picked up anything on the sound detectors and I don’t think they will, ’cos the place came down like a pack of cards. There’s not a lot holding these old houses in one piece, see.’ Liberty looked away, embarrassed to be causing further discomfort.
Longbright started walking towards the site, but May gently held her back. ‘Let me take you home, Janice,’ he offered.
She shrugged aside the proffered hand. ‘I’m all right, I just didn’t think it would end like this. It is the end, isn’t it?’ Longbright was already sure of the answer. Arthur Bryant and John May were men fashioned by routines and habits. They had closed a case and stayed on to analyse the results, catching up, enjoying each other’s company. It was what they always did, their way of starting afresh. Everyone knew that. John had left the building first, abandoning his insomniac partner.
‘Who’s conducting the search? They’ll have to verify—’
‘The fire department’s first priority is to make sure it’s safe,’ said Liberty. ‘Of course they’ll report their findings as quickly as possible. Anything I hear, you’ll know. John’s right, you should go home, there’s nothing you can do.’
May stared up at the building, suddenly unsure of himself.
Longbright watched the column of rusty smoke rising fast in the still grey air. She felt disconnected from the events surround- ing her. It was the termination of a special partnership; their names had been inextricably linked, Bryant, May, Longbright. Now she had left and Bryant was gone, leaving May alone. She had spent so much time in their company that the detectives were more familiar than her closest relatives, like friendly monochrome faces in old films. They had been, and would always be, her family.
Longbright realized she was crying even before she registered the shout, as though time had folded back on itself. A fireman was calling from the blackened apex of the building. She couldn’t hear what he was saying, would not allow herself to hear it. As she ran towards the ruins with the fire officers at her heels, the familiar codes started passing through the rescue group.
A single body, an elderly white male, had been located in the wreckage. For Arthur Bryant and John May, an unorthodox alliance had come to a violent end. They were her colleagues, her mentors, her closest friends. She would not allow herself to believe that Bryant was dead.
An immolation had joined the end to the beginning, past and present blown together. John May had always sensed that routine demise would not be enough for his partner. They had just closed a sad, cruel case, their last together. There were no more outstanding enemies. Bryant had finally started thinking about retirement as the unit headed for a period of radical change, sanctioned by new Home Office policies. He and May had been discussing them only the Friday before, during their customary evening walk to the river. May thought back to their conversation, trying to recall whether they had spoken of any...
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- ASIN : B000FC1QNI
- Publisher : Bantam (June 1, 2004)
- Publication date : June 1, 2004
- Language : English
- File size : 1457 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 496 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0553385534
- Best Sellers Rank: #348,710 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,408 in Mystery Series
- #2,845 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #3,446 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)
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About the author
Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London. He is the multi award-winning author of 45 novels and short story collections, and the author of the Bryant & May mysteries. His novels include ‘Roofworld’, 'Spanky', 'Psychoville', 'Calabash' and two volumes of memoirs, the award-winning 'Paperboy' and 'Film Freak'. In 2015 he won the CWA Dagger In The Library. His latest books are 'England's Finest' and 'Oranges & Lemons'. Among his recent collections are 'Red Gloves', 25 stories of unease, marked his first 25 years of writing, and the e-book 'Frightening', a new set of short stories. Other later novels include the comedy-thriller 'Plastic', the Hammer-style monster adventure 'Hell Train', the haunted house chiller 'Nyctophobia' and the JG Ballard-esque 'The Sand Men'. Coming up in 2021 is the 20th Bryant & May book, 'London Bridge Is Falling Down'.
He has written comedy and drama for BBC radio, script, features and columns for national press, graphic novels, the play ‘Celebrity’ and the ‘War Of The Worlds’ videogame for Paramount, starring Sir Patrick Stewart. His short story 'The Master Builder' became a feature film entitled 'Through The Eyes Of A Killer', starring Tippi Hedren. Among his awards are the Edge Hill prize 2008 for 'Old Devil Moon', the Last Laugh prize 2009 for 'The Victoria Vanishes' and again in 2015 for 'The Burning Man'.
Christopher has achieved several ridiculous schoolboy fantasies, releasing a terrible Christmas pop single, becoming a male model, writing a stage show, posing as the villain in a Batman graphic novel, running a night club, appearing in the Pan Books of Horror and standing in for James Bond. After living in the USA and France he is now married and lives in London's King's Cross and Barcelona.
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Customers find the plot interesting and enjoyable. They enjoy the believable characters and their development throughout the story. Readers praise the writing quality as intelligent and well-crafted, with a sense of humor that blends well with the mystery. Overall, they find the book an encouraging start to the series that keeps them hooked until the end.
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Customers find the plot interesting and engaging. They appreciate the twists and turns in the story, as well as the intriguing aspects of London's history. The book has two narrative tracks, with present-day and 1940s elements woven into the narrative. Readers find it different from typical murder mysteries, with nice bits and snatches of Savoyard trivia thrown in.
"...I loved the history, the revelation of what it must have been to live in the daily horror of bomb blasts--and best of all I loved the company of..." Read more
"...Hey! I’m missing the main point which is that these books are both good mysteries and great fun...." Read more
"...its three points for (mostly) clever writing, being funny and sometimes insightful. I may try another later...." Read more
"This mystery series has it all: clever writing, eccentric and lovable characters, rich London setting, complex and entertaining plots, and lots of..." Read more
Customers enjoy the book. They find it interesting and a page-turner with complex plots and historical details. The unique characters and lively banter between them are also appreciated.
"...Lots of plot twists and turns, murders, flights into the bowels of the old theatre, as well as into the fog of a blackout, as our detectives..." Read more
"...the main point which is that these books are both good mysteries and great fun. You’d have to be already dead not to enjoy these books." Read more
"...and lovable characters, rich London setting, complex and entertaining plots, and lots of historic and geographic detail...." Read more
"...Yes, I am. I'm also glad that I have quite a few left to read. I'm looking forward to a long and pleasurable association with Bryant and May." Read more
Customers find the characters interesting and well-written. They enjoy the introduction of the characters during WWII and the varied plots between then. The supporting cast is entertaining, and the believable pair of heroes are painted as such.
"...I certainly hope so as I am so enjoying these two marvelous fun characters who have made me laugh out loud and shiver in suspense...." Read more
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"...the plots complex, but these books are also full of colorful, eccentric characters and wonderful humor. There are also two extra bonuses...." Read more
"...nice bits and snatches of Savoyard trivia, a nice instogram of Offenbach's career, and a fairly good and dramatic picture of life during..." Read more
Customers find the writing quality engaging with quirky characters. They describe the tale as absorbing and heartwarming, with no misplaced words or forced sentences. Readers appreciate the author's skill in conveying the overarching fear and sense of danger without being too wordy. The book is described as a quick read with great detail.
"...The author tells an absorbing tale while evoking for us the overlying fear and sense of helplessness, as well as the courage of Londoners...." Read more
"...In fact, it gets its three points for (mostly) clever writing, being funny and sometimes insightful. I may try another later...." Read more
"This mystery series has it all: clever writing, eccentric and lovable characters, rich London setting, complex and entertaining plots, and lots of..." Read more
"...It’s not even an easy read by any means as witnessed that it took me three weeks to read it...." Read more
Customers enjoy the humor in the book. They find the characters witty and humorous, with a clever dialogue and charming phrases. The book blends mystery with humor in a clever way.
"...of bomb blasts--and best of all I loved the company of those two lovable, eccentric, elderly detectives...." Read more
"...They’re all witty, sometimes laugh out so. They’re all deftly and cunningly plotted...." Read more
"...In fact, it gets its three points for (mostly) clever writing, being funny and sometimes insightful. I may try another later...." Read more
"...these books are also full of colorful, eccentric characters and wonderful humor. There are also two extra bonuses...." Read more
Customers find the book a good start to the series. They praise the engaging characters and premise, and consider it an encouraging start to a delightful series. While some find it confusing at times, most are pleased with the start and look forward to more books in the series.
"...A good start of the series - their first and last cases. Now I want to read the other books in between." Read more
"This is a brilliant beginning of the Bryant and May partnership and their fledgling department The Peculiar Crimes Division...." Read more
"...to do: introduce a new cast of engaging characters and hook you on the series. Done and done." Read more
"...It is a strong start to the series, but they can be read in any order." Read more
Customers find the book captivating and detailed. They describe it as a refreshing change from the usual shoot-em-up genre.
"...interesting facets of the city of London, this one dives even deeper into particular substance with a long and detailed look at the workings of a..." Read more
"A long book, but one that keeps your interest. It jumps back and forth between modern day London and London in 1940 during the blitz...." Read more
"...the London bombings somewhat interesting, but again, it goes on an on to no apparent purpose...." Read more
"Silly yet pensive. Abstruse yet keeping my interest, which is not easy these days as I have grown exceedingly picky about my books...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book. Some find it fast-paced and engaging, with a good balance between Bryant's oddness and May's youthfulness. Others feel the time hopping slows the story down in places and leaves them confused by the abrupt transitions between periods.
"...They’re all witty, sometimes laugh out so. They’re all deftly and cunningly plotted...." Read more
"...this was handled in a very clever way (with flashbacks) this slowed the story in places...." Read more
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"Eccentric Bryant is eclectic in his interests, while May, relies on logic and legwork...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2006This is a 'frame' story, one that begins and ends in the present and works back into the past of many years ago, during the blitz in London. There are returns to the present throughout, but it is the past which dominates and fascinates as we get a sense of what it must have been like during that horrific time in London history.
The author tells an absorbing tale while evoking for us the overlying fear and sense of helplessness, as well as the courage of Londoners. The darkness that prevailed, the smell of smoke and ash, the ruins of store fronts, the gaping holes in streets...this is the backdrop as John and Arthur pursue a shadowy killer through an old dark theatre. The workings of theatre life are also well done. Given what is going on in the world, our detectives pause to wonder if one lone murderer matters very much in a London full of death and destruction, but they must stop him, nevertheless. Lots of plot twists and turns, murders, flights into the bowels of the old theatre, as well as into the fog of a blackout, as our detectives attempt to unravel the secret of the mythological clues the killer leaves behind.
I loved the history, the revelation of what it must have been to live in the daily horror of bomb blasts--and best of all I loved the company of those two lovable, eccentric, elderly detectives. From the moment Fowler puts the thought in May's head that Bryant resembled a young Alec Guiness, he nailed him for the rest of the series. I saw him first as Guiness was in 'Great Expectations' (as Herbert Pockets), then as he was much later in 'Scrooge', and even with a hint of 'The Lady Killers' scarf-draped criminal genius. That Guiness image will stay with me as I continue to read through this series.
I've finished 'The Water Room' and now am into 'Seventy-Seven Clocks.' Maybe by the time I have finished this one, Fowler will have a new one out. I certainly hope so as I am so enjoying these two marvelous fun characters who have made me laugh out loud and shiver in suspense. Not your traditional police procedural novels, these stories seem more character driven, yet with plenty of mystery story.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2021If the master of locked room mysteries in the 19320s and through 50s was John Dickson Carr, his clear successor is Christopher Fowler, and his mad, mad series of novels about London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit, set up to deal with the odd ones, the cases that normal Sherlock Holmesian detection simply can’t handle.
The detectives? Arthur Bryant, an enthusiast of offbeat approaches, white witches, seances, an aged stuffed Abyssinian cat as familiar, leaking sawdust from its seams. And John May, as rational and straightforward as Arthur is off the tracks. But they work well together, aided by the other more sanely (and staidly) inclined members of the Unit. In this –I’m not sure if it’s the first in the series—Bryant is blown up in the very (first chapter and May tries to figure out what his eccentric friend and colleague was investigating, boom ,boom, when his life ended when his life ended, not prematurely, because he was in his eighties by then, but still before either he or May wanted it to end. Clues lead May back to the very first case Bryant and he, young twenties then, investigated. It was a complicated, steamy case in 1940, of the knocking off in highly referential fashion (read your Greek mythology, especially the story of Orpheus) of a string of actors and dancers in a production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld (1858). By the end of it, Bryant, the fey one, has advanced and been utterly crushed on two answers to the crimes. But number 3 sticks and no one else comes anywhere close to an answer. The novel advances in alternate chapters to solve what happened in 1940 to the very young and earnest Bryant and May and where they eventually stand, though much, much older, in 2000.
I’ve read several of the books in this series, which now numbers twenty in length. I‘ve reviewed one or two of them and I’ve enjoyed all I’ve read. I’m not getting any younger so I decided now is the time to read them all in sequence.
They’re all witty, sometimes laugh out so. They’re all deftly and cunningly plotted. Fowler’s understanding and appreciation of the geography, character and structure of mid-century London is a decided plus. Hey! I’m missing the main point which is that these books are both good mysteries and great fun. You’d have to be already dead not to enjoy these books.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016This is not a badly written novel. In fact, it gets its three points for (mostly) clever writing, being funny and sometimes insightful. I may try another later. It is, however a very badly researched novel, and when much of the point of the story is portraying London during the Blitz, it loses a lot of points for that. Hint to the editor, who should appear in the stocks beside the author: In November 1940, with France occupied by Nazi Germany and invasion seeming imminent, theatrical companies were not lending one another players across the English Channel, nor did families pay calls. And if you need to confer with the Austrian Embassy, you'll need a Tardis. Austria ceased to exist in March 1938, and won't be resurrected until 1945. It's no good trying to sound authoritative about bombings, ration books and air raid precautions. Once you blunder on that scale, no one's going to trust the other details.
Oh. The mysteries. There's a 1940 and a c. 2004. The 1940 solution struck me as arbitrary. I knew the answer to the 2004 at no more than 15% into reading the novel, and I'm not that good. Try one, but if the characters and the style of writing aren't attractive to you, don't hang around for the history or the mystery.
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- C.JamReviewed in Germany on January 9, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars My second B&M
Fantastic books, great storylines and best of all plenty of nonsical history about London, I simply could not put these down and was somewhat sad when I had finally completed the whole series.
- John McNallyReviewed in Australia on February 7, 2017
4.0 out of 5 stars No Idea till the End!!
I really enjoyed this book. It was suspenseful and kept me guessing till the very end as to "who done it!!". I am now very much looking forward to Bryant and May book 2.
- S. BurdenReviewed in Canada on January 8, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
This is the first book I have read in the Full Dark House series, and I look forward to reading all of them.
A very cleaver use of the two main characters and such an enjoyable read. Teenagers and adults alike will enjoy this book.
- MrReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2011
5.0 out of 5 stars Full Dark London
There is nobody who writes with a greater passion, a greater humour and verve about London than Christopher Fowler. For years I was reading Peter Ackroyd and although his Victorian visions and Historical hysteria are ok, it is only with Fowler that I pick up the sense of the city I know and love.
The Bryant and May series is steeped in little known facts, little threads and themes that run throughout and are constantly inventive, fun and on occasion very moving. Nobody is doing a series like this and once you start to read them you will be hooked.
I know that Christopher Folwer doesn't care if we read these novels in order, in fact probably thinks it pointless but for me I like to read in order, so....here is a list of publication date, but feel more than free to read them backwards...
Full Dark House
2004
ISBN 0-553-81552-0
The Water Room
2004
ISBN 0-385-60554-4
Seventy-Seven Clocks
2005
ISBN 0-385-60885-3
Ten Second Staircase
2006
ISBN 0-385-60886-1
White Corridor
2007
ISBN 978-0-385-61067-4
The Victoria Vanishes
2008
ISBN 978-0-385-61068-1
Bryant & May On The Loose
2009
ISBN 978-0-385-61465-8
Bryant & May Off the Rails
2010
ISBN 978-0553807202
Byant & May & The Memory of Blood
2011
ISBN-10: 0857520490
Bryant & May & The Invisible Code
2012
ISBN-10: 0857520504
- BobMReviewed in Canada on July 24, 2017
4.0 out of 5 stars A bit of light hearted escapism
This book was discussed on the CBC and reviewed favourably.
It would suit people who enjoy entertaining stories peppered with bits of historical trivia.
It is humerous and at times clever