Full dark house

The Resource Full dark house
Label
Full dark house
Statement of responsibility
Christopher Fowler
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. The story of both their first and last case--and how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection. A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer's identity, May finds his old friend's notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned ... with a killing vengeance. It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limits--and beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London's theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant's unorthodox techniques and John May's dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural---a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them ... and is ready to claim the other
Member of
Cataloging source
TEFOD
Dewey number
823/.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR6056.O846
LC item number
F69 2004eb
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery

Context

Context of Full dark house

Work of

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Nesmith Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.