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Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Fowler, Christopher

Hardcover

Series: Peculiar Crimes Unit, Book 15

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 1101887095
ISBN13: 9781101887097
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Dec 4 2018
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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.

Hard to believe, but even positively ancient sleuths like Bryant and May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit were young once . . . or at least younger. Flashback to London 1969: mods and dolly birds, sunburst minidresses--but how long would the party last?

After accidentally sinking a barge painted like the Yellow Submarine, Bryant and May are relegated to babysitting one Monty Hatton-Jones, the star prosecution witness in the trial of a disreputable developer whose prefabs are prone to collapse. The job for the demoted detectives? Keep the whistle-blower safe for one weekend.

The task proves unexpectedly challenging when their unruly charge insists on attending a party at the vast estate Tavistock Hall. With falling stone gryphons, secret passageways, rumors of a mythical beast, and an all-too-real dismembered corpse, the bedeviled policemen soon find themselves with a proper country house murder on their hands.

Trapped for the weekend, Bryant and May must sort the victims from the suspects, including a hippie heir, a blond nightclub singer, and Monty himself--and nobody is quite who he or she seems to be.

Praise for Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors

Arthur Bryant has written his memoirs--and a jolly good yarn they make, too. . . . As always in this series, this one's a lark.--The New York Times Book Review

[Hall of Mirrors is] a largely comic escapade whose tone evokes both the biting wit of Evelyn Waugh and the slapsticker shenanigans of P.G. Woodhouse.--The Wall Street Journal

More fully fleshed-out suspects, clues, red herrings, twists, and honest mystery and detection than in the last three whodunits you read.--Kirkus Reviews

The narrative [veers] between laugh-out-loud funny to macabre. . . . Eccentric and consistently entertaining.--Booklist

Fowler evokes the period as neatly as he crafts the plot.--Publishers Weekly

Wonderful.--Deadly Pleasures

So Agatha Christie (intentionally). And as in a Christie, nothing is quite what it seems as one murder follows another. Love the butler.--Poisoned Pen Newsletter

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