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The Victoria vanishes a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery

Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's olde...

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Main Author: Fowler, Christopher
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bantam Books, 2008.
Series:Fowler, Christopher. Bryant & May mysteries ;
Fowler, Christopher. Bryant & May mysteries ;
Subjects:
May, John > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Bryant, Arthur > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Police > England > London > Fiction.
Bars (Drinking establishments) > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Serial murderers > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > England.
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Summary:Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar Crimes Unit to track down a killer who is stalking London's oldest watering holes.
Physical Description:323 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780553805024 (hardcover)
0553805029 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London, England in 1953. He died on March 3, 2023. Fowler was the author of the Bryant and May Mystery series, Rune, and Old Devil Moon, which won the Edge Hill Audience Prize in 2008. He also won the British Fantasy Society Award for best novella for Breathe in 2005. He also won The Dagger in the Library Award 2015 for his body of work.

Fowler was diagnosed with cancer in March 2020, which he announced on his blog the following April. He died in London on 3 March 2023, at the age of 69.

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