Full Dark House
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407094120
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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Full Dark House

(Bryant & May Book 1)

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1 Jul 2010
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1 Nov 2004
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The matchless team of Inspectors Bryant and May investigate a series of macabre murders against the eerie urban chaos of London during the Blitz.

When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit and claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant, his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity. His search takes him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940.

In Blitz-ravaged London, a beautiful dancer rehearsing for a sexy, sinister production of 'Orpheus In The Underworld' is found without her feet. Bryant & May's investigation plunges them into a bizarre gothic mystery, where a faceless man stalks terrified actors and death strikes in darkness. Tracking their quarry through the blackout, searching for a murderer who'll stop at nothing to be free of a nightmare, the duo unwittingly follow the same path Orpheus took when leading Euridyce from the shadows of Hell.

Back in the present day, John May starts to wonder if their oldest adversary might be the killer who took his partner's life. He must work alone to solve a puzzle that began over half a century earlier...

In a war-shaken city of myths, rumours and fear, Bryant & May discover that a house is not always a home, nothing is as it appears, the most cunning criminals hide in plain sight, and the devil has all the best tunes. Dark drama and black comedy combine as Bryant & May take centre stage in their first great case.
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407094120
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
Categories:

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.

Also by Christopher Fowler

The Foot on the Crown
Word Monkey
Bryant & May’s Peculiar London
Bryant & May - London Bridge is Falling Down
Bryant & May - Oranges and Lemons
Bryant & May – England’s Finest
Bryant & May - The Lonely Hour
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Praise for Full Dark House

A bizarre dark comedy of an investigation... bawdy, unpredictable and at times hilarious, with a cast of wonderful grotesques

Guardian

A writer of extraordinary imagination

Sunday Express

An evocatively reverential tribute to the genre...the clash of temperaments between Bryant and May makes them great detectives

Time Out

As filled with tricks and sleights of hand as a magician's sleeve... witty, charismatic, occasionally touching and with a genuine power to thrill

Joanne Harris

Atmospheric, hugely beguiling and as filled with tricks and sleights of hand as a magician's sleeve... this is English gothic at its eccentric best; a combination of Ealing comedy and grand opera: witty, charismatic, occasionally touching and with a genuine power to thrill

Joanne Harris

Fowler belongs with the mythographers of London: Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd

New Statesman

Fowler shocks and frightens while making us laugh out loud. An original, erudite and exciting whodunnit

Good Book Guide

Its combination of Grand Guignol and place setting does command attention

Metro London

The striking gothic setting of London under fire proves fruitful ground for a bizarre dark comedy of an investigation... bawdy, unpredictable and at times hilarious, with a cast of wonderful grotesques

Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian

The writing is as ever fluid and pacey, the characterisation deft and the plot fresh and ingenious

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