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... Fowler The Victoria Vanishes Doubleday, 30th, h/b, £14.99, 9780385610681 A sixth Londonset investigation for detectives Bryant and May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, the crime-fighting duo described as “somewhere between Holmes and Watson and Mulder and Scully” ...
... plantation of fast-growing poplars that were planted in the 1970 s as eventual timber trees suitable for the then thriving Bryant & May match industry. The decline in demand for matches since then has meant they have escaped the axe, and, today, their silver-grey ...
... Christopher Fowler Paperboy Doubleday, 12th, h/b, £14.99, 9780385615570 Author of the Bryant & May crime series with a memoir of his 1960 s suburban childhood and days devouring books, cereal packets, comics, and anything with a story, despite his family’s ...
... Cobham. The hotel, a member of the Hand Picked group was originally designed and built for Mr F C Bryant, the son of the founder of the match company Bryant and May, one of the new wealthy industrialists of the Victorian period. The house has recently undergone ...
... Theatre from May 22 , before visiting Tunbridge Wells , Oxford and Birmingham , then returning to Artsdepot . 1916 – India is simmering with discontent against the Raj . Enter English Annie Besant , notorious for unionising the Bryant & May match girls ...
... according to my reader. Christopher Fowler The Water Room Bantam, £6.99, B, Ist, 0553815539 The second in his fulllength Bryant and May mystery series, following Full Dark House which was shortlisted for the People’s Choice award sponsored by Book Club ...
... work by Bryant I was sorry to read of the death of Michael Bryant ( Obituaries , May 2 , page 13 ) . Truly moments of television drama are few and far between but to me one of the most sensational pieces of acting in that medium was by Bryant in Tweedledum ...
... also the potential pitfalls. Ten-Second Staircase Christopher Fowler (Doubleday, £12.99). If you haven't met Arthur Bryant and John May, detect ives rather than matchboxes, start now. The aged duo run the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Here they dea l wit h a phantom ...
... following Furyand Black River. The Water Room Christopher Fowler Bantam, September, £12.99, 0385605544 Second in the Bryant and May series—featuring the idiosyncratic pair of mismatched London sleuths. Sight Unseen Robert Goddard 27 AUGUST 2004 v N *\ ...
... Doubleday, Ist, h/b, £12.99, 0385605544 Second gothic crime story set in Victorian London and featuring detective duo Bryant and May. Book Scan N/S Clare Francis Homeland Macmillan, 3rd, h/b, £16.99, 0333908147 Set in a Somerset resettlement camp in the ...
... It has a mass of favourable h/b reviews. Christopher Fowler White Corridor Bantam, £6.99, 14th, 9780553817980 The fifth Bryant and May, now with their names flagged up prominently on the cover. I think they are one of the best detective duos around. Eccentric ...
... Christopher Fowler Ten-Second Staircase Bantam, £6.99, 2nd, 9780553817201 The fourth in the Bryant and May series, and this one is ace. I cannot recommend this series highly enough. James Lee Burke Pegasus Descending Phoenix, £6.99, 19th, 9780753822081 ...