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Bryant & May : hall of mirrors
Record details
- ISBN: 1101887095 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9781101887097 (hardback : acid-free paper)
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Physical Description:
414 pages ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, London, in 2018." -- t.p. verso. |
| Summary, etc.: | "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. The critics are mad for Christopher Fowler, his irascible creations Bryant and May, and the Peculiar author's gift for writing classic mysteries with delightfully uncommon twists. Entertainment Weekly calls Fowler "deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive," while The Guardian admires his "splendidly eccentric characters [and] corkscrew plots." This new novel is no exception. As the Swinging Sixties paint dreary London a DayGlo rainbow, detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good old-fashioned manor house 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 minidresses--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 "a proper country house murder" on their hands. Trapped for the weekend, Bryant and May must sort the victims from the suspects, including a hippie heir, a missing millionaire, a blond nightclub singer, and a mystery writer--not to mention Monty himself--and nobody is quite who he or she seems to be"-- |
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| Subject: | Bryant, Arthur (Fictitious character) Fiction May, John (Fictitious character) Fiction Police England London Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. Mystery fiction. |
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- 20 of 20 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 2 of 2 copies available at Bridgeport Public Library. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | MYS FOWLER (Text) | 34000081419426 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| North Branch - Bridgeport | MYS FOWLER (Text) | 34000081419418 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | MYSTERY FOWLER (Bryant & May 15) (Text) | 34030142393765 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC FOWLER,C (Text) | 34026141854435 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Hall Memorial Library - Ellington | M FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER (Text) | 34037143256099 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | MYSTERY FOWLER (Text) | 32518144346197 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | MYS Fow (Text) | 33620142409941 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Milford Public Library | FOWLER Christopher (Text) | 34013144093070 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| New Milford Public Library | MYS FOWLE (Text) | 34021130458751 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
| Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC FOWLER, C (Text) | 36123132910231 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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