SummaryEdgy, 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. In Full Dark House, Christopher
Fowler tells 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. Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and
a mystery that will keep you guessing, Full Dark House is a
witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the
hunt for an inhuman killer.
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