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  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780553819700
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99

Bryant and May Off the Rails (Bryant and May 8)

(Bryant & May Book 8)




British fiction's most enigmatic detectives since Holmes & Watson return in their eighth wickedly entertaining and intriguing investigation...

They've been given just one week to find a killer they'd caught once before . . .
Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma: a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he escaped from a locked room and murdered one of their best and brightest.
Now the detectives are being lured down into the darkest recesses of the London Underground where their quarry, expertly disguised, has struck again. Their search takes them into the vast labyrinth of tunnels, a subterranean world full of legends and ghost stations, which tie the city together. Edging closer to what lies hidden beneath the city - and to the madness that is driving a man to murder - Bryant and May are about to uncover a mystery as bizarre as anything they have ever encountered . . .

  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780553819700
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler is the author of more than forty novels (sixteen of which feature the detectives Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit) and many short story collections. A multiple award-winner, including the coveted CWA ‘Dagger in the Library’, Chris has also written screenplays, video games, graphic novels, audio plays and two acclaimed memoirs, Paperboy and Film Freak. His most recent non-fiction book is The Book of Forgotten Authors. Chris divides his time between London's King’s Cross and Barcelona. You can find out more by visiting his website and following him on Twitter.

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Praise for Bryant and May Off the Rails (Bryant and May 8)

Do yourself a favour and pick up a novel by Christopher Fowler. The author's Bryant and May series is proving to be one of the quirkiest and most ingenious pleasures to be found in the genre: atmospheric, sardonically funny and craftily suspenseful

Barry Forshaw, AMAZON.CO.UK

Outstanding... a golden age mystery... [Christopher] Fowler has few peers when it comes to constructing ingenious plots

Publishers Weekly

One of the most delightful series around

Library Journal

Sharp wit, elegant style, and wild imagination

The Boston Globe

Dazzling

The Denver Post

Sparkling

The Plain Dealer