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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780553805024
ISBN: 0553805029
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Studio: Bantam

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
It’s a case tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs—including one torn down eighty years ago. What’s more, Arthur Bryant happened to see one of the victims only moments before her death at the pub that doesn’t exist. Indeed, this case is littered with clues that defy everything the veteran detectives know about the habits of serial killers, the methodology of crime, and the odds of making an arrest. Now, with the public on the verge of panic and their superiors determined to shut the PCU down for good, Detectives Bryant and May must rise to the occasion in defense of two great English traditions—the pub and the Peculiar Crimes Unit.

That’s easier said than done. A lost funeral urn, the eighteenth-century mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, the Knights Templars, the secret history of pubs, and the discovery of an astounding religious relic may be enough to convince one of the pair to take back his resignation letter. But with Bryant consulting a memory specialist and May encountering a brush with mortality, do the Peculiar Crimes Unit’s two living legends have enough life left to stop a murderous conspiracy…and a deadly cupid targeting one of their own.






Rating: - Fun light reading for a winter's night
Not as good as the early Fowlers but better than the last. A slow start but picks up, all in all great fun for a cold night.

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Rating: - Victoria Vanishes
Once I got over the British way of writing (punctuation is different and some phrases and slang is unique), I really liked the where he was going. The characters come to life and you're rooting for them all the way through their crisis within a crisis. They are threatening to close down their Special Crimes Unit just as they are getting close to the identity of the serial murderer. They are literaly booted out of their office and left to do their investigation in a living room! But they are good. ... Read More

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Rating: - I LOVE Christopher Fowler
This is the latest in the series and YOU MUST read them all!!! They are very interesting mysterys that include alot of historic information regarding London from pre world war 2 until the present. This current one has so much info about Pubs.

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Rating: - This is not a work to be skimmed on the bus, but rather to be read in the quiet of solitude
The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) mystery series by Christopher Fowler is one of a kind. Unapologetically British, one finds elements of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, James Bond, "The Avengers" and "Danger Mouse" circulating throughout the books, yet the concept is delightfully unique. The PCU is a division of the London Metropolitan Police Department, which has been in existence for over 60 years. Arthur Bryant and John May, its stalwart, eccentric detectives, have been at the de facto helm for more ... Read More

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Rating: - "I'm far too old to start obeying the rules now."
In Christopher Fowler's "The Victoria Vanishes," the London-based Peculiar Crimes Unit investigates the case of a mysterious killer who targets women, seemingly at random, in English pubs. Arthur Bryant and John May, who are senior detectives and long-time partners, for many years have used their esoteric knowledge, unique skills, and willingness to skirt the law to solve unusual and confounding crimes. Both men are past retirement age and it shows. May, who is the more grounded of the two, is ailing ... Read More

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