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The Victoria Vanishes
Christopher Fowler
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Description for The Victoria Vanishes
Paperback. 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. Could he be losing his mind as well? Then it becomes clear that a number of women have met their ends in London pubs. Series: Bryant and May. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
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 funeral urn of an old friend. Could he be losing his mind as well?
Then it becomes clear that a number of women have met their ends in London pubs. It seems a silent, secret killer is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bantam
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Bryant and May
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780553817997
SKU
V9780553817997
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-75
About 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, ... Read more
Reviews for The Victoria Vanishes
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
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