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

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

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 minidressesâ€”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 â€œa proper country house murderâ€ 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 himselfâ€”and nobody is quite who he or she seems to be.

Praise for Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors

â€œArthur Bryant has written his memoirsâ€”and a jolly good yarn they make, too. . . . As always in this series, this oneâ€™s a lark.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

â€œ[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.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal

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

â€œThe narrative [veers] between laugh-out-loud funny to macabre. . . . Eccentric and consistently entertaining.â€â€”Booklist

â€œFowler evokes the period as neatly as he crafts the plot.â€â€”Publishers Weekly

â€œWonderful.â€â€”Deadly Pleasures

â€œSo Agatha Christie (intentionally). And as in a Christie, nothing is quite what it seems as one murder follows another. Love the butler.â€â€”Poisoned PenÂ Newsletter

Country	USA
Author	Christopher Fowler
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101887103
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
NumberOfPages	420
PublicationDate	2018-12-04
Publisher	Bantam
ReleaseDate	2018-12-04
Studio	Bantam

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

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