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Also by Christopher Fowler:

Bryant & May: Peculiar London, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
London's Glory, April 2016
e-Book
Bryant & May and the Burning Man, December 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Nyctophobia, October 2014
Paperback
The Invisible Code, December 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Bryant & May on the Loose, December 2009
Hardcover
The Victoria Vanishes, November 2008
Hardcover
White Corridor, May 2007
Hardcover
Ten Second Staircase, June 2006
Hardcover
Seventy-Seven Clocks, November 2005
Paperback

The Victoria Vanishes
Christopher Fowler

Peculiar Crimes Unit #6
Bantam
November 2008
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Featuring: Arthur Bryant; John May
336 pages
ISBN: 0553805029
EAN: 9780553805024
Hardcover
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Mystery Private Eye | Paranormal

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.

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5 comments posted.

Re: The Victoria Vanishes

My MIL reads Christopher's book she love's the mystery stories on top of revisiting with the detective's I will have to give them a look.
(Ann w 1:16pm September 5, 2009)

This sounds great! I've not read any of Christpher's book but will have to give them a try!
(JoAnn White 5:57pm September 5, 2009)

I'D LOVE TO WIN A SIGNED COPY OF THIS BOOK. THANKS. LORRAINE
(Lorraine Larose 8:12pm September 5, 2009)

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(Lorraine Larose 8:14pm September 5, 2009)

Just wanted to say, this is one of my favorite series, when I cam find them!! Excellent story telling, dialogue is quirky, and the subtle learning I get, very painless!!
(Anne Harris 10:13am September 6, 2009)