- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday (4 Aug 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385605536
- ISBN-13: 978-0385605533
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 567,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The story opens with a member of one of London's most unusual police units being blown up in his office. He is John May, partner to Arthur Bryant, who now starts to investigate his death. The search takes Bryant back to the time of their first meeting in 1940. London is struggling to survive the Blitz when a beautiful dancer is found without her feet. Bryant and May's investigation uncovers a weird gothic mystery, involving a killer who appears to be faceless. In the present day, May speculates whether that old adversary might be the killer. He needs to solve a riddle that began more than 50 years earlier. It is a tense, clever novel which keeps one riveted from the first page.
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`An assured move into crime and mystery by the acclaimed dark horror writer.`
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Whizz in a blender,
This review is from: Full Dark House (Hardcover)
If you were to take one Agatha Christie crime novel, a couple of episodes of the X-Files and the two crabbit auld geezers from "The Fast Show" and whizz them in a blender, the result would be very similar to this book.The "misfit" section of the Metropolitan Police is called the PCU (Peculiar Crimes Unit), and its creation during the Second World War led to the working partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May. Their very first case (theatrical serial killer) comes back to haunt the unit with a vengeance, when Arthur is believed murdered in a bomb blast 50 years later. The plot twists and turns very satisfactorily throughout the book and the switches between present day and the past are well handled.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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A Dark Tale of a Dark Time,
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This review is from: Full Dark House (Bryant & May 1) (Paperback)
This is a very enjoyable book; Bryant and May are offbeat, eccentric but ultimately believable characters. The book is set both in present day London and the London that was being devastated by World War Two.The author paints a vivid picture of turbulent times and has obviously done a great deal of research to make sure that period details are correct, particularly the descriptions of the backstage areas of theatres and the varied staff and procedures for putting on a show. The premise that the Met should have a department specially set up to investigate peculiar crimes is sheer brilliance and will hopefully lead to a further outing for Bryant and May.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
history of some old favourites,
By shansu69 "ag171269" (london) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Full Dark House (Hardcover)
if you are a regular christopher fowler reader you would have come across the 'decrepit detectives' Arthur Bryant and John May and their adventures in the North London Peculiar Crimes Unit.This novel takes us back to the beginning of their investigations which started in 1940 as two young policemen seconded to the newly opened unit.The story flashes back between 1940 and the present day and is the usual mix of the weird and wonderful that graces a Fowler book.The story concerns the mysterious murders that happen during the rehersals and opening for a show of Orpheus at the Palace Theatre (the one where Les Mis plays).the characters are well drawn and fufill their roles well and the good thing is that you find out how some of the other characters that inhabit the Bryant and May universe came to be.This book is part mystery,part horror and part hisory guide with the descriptive writing that Fowler uses to give us the flavours of London 1940.The goods thing is that after a couple of appearances before this looks like the first in a continuing series of B&M novels which in my opinion would make a great tv series(any commissioning editors out there take note Fowlers works would make GREAT tv !!) A well written book that is definitely worth reading and hopefully this being the first of many.
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