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The Victoria Vanishes (2008)

by Christopher Fowler(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385610688 (ISBN13: 9780385610681)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Doubleday

series

Bryant & May

review 1: Another Bryant & May novel and a return to form from Christopher Fowler. I really enjoyed this mystery of middle aged women dropping dead in public houses. I much preferred the storyline of this to the previous novel with the Highwayman, although the end felt a bit rushed. The book ends on a cliff hanger and it's not clear what will become of the PCU going forward. I like the addition of Renfield to the team and it's interesting to see how Fowler makes his character more sympathetic than in the previous novel. Looking forward to the next instalment...
review 2: Another amazing mystery from Fowler involving the PCU and London's most senior (in their 90's) detectives in London. Heading home half-sloshed after a wake for Oswald Finch, their late pathologist (whose... more mysterious death was recounted in "The White Corridor"), erudite, eccentric and memory-challenged Arthur Bryant manages to lose Oswald's crematory urn, sees a murder victim minutes before she dies, and sees a pub demolished three-quarters of a century earlier. As with all Fowler's tales of the Peculiar Crimes Unit, nothing is really what it seems to be, all the various narrative threads weave into a complex tapestry, and by the time you are finished there are no loose threads. Like all books in the PCU series, this one has equally heavy doses of mystery, humor, characterization, history and mayhem. If you love London mysteries, you have to read this book. less

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