The Victoria Vanishes
(Bryant and May Book 6)
$36.83
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2009
Summary
Quirky detail and a page-turning plot combine as British fiction’s most enigmatic detectives since Holmes and Watson search for a murderer.
One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where their paths crossed. Even more disturbing, the pub has vanished. Bryant is convinced that he saw them as they were over a century before, but the elderly detective has already lost the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553817997 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 055381799X |
| Author: | Christopher Fowler |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Bryant & May |
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Critics Review
Fowler’s latest bears all the hallmarks of the classic British mystery - think Edmund Crispin’s 1946 novel The Moving Toyshop, but much funnier and more distinctive, with plenty of mordant humour, fascinating trivia about London past and present, and the basis for an epic pub crawl of your own. What more could you want? * Guardian *
The most endearing pair of old farts in crime fiction – Laura Wilson
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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