Seventy-Seven Clocks

Bryant & May Book 3

Christopher Fowler

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English

Bantam
01 November 2006

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Detective Horror; Medical

Series: Bryant & May

The third Bryant & May mystery, in which British fiction's most enigmatic detectives investigate perhaps their most peculiar case of all...

'The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at the time. We got into terrible trouble. Dear fellow, it was one of our most truly peculiar cases. I remember as if it was yesterday.' In fact, Arthur Bryant remembers very little about yesterday, but he does remember the oddest investigation of his career... It was late in 1973. As strikes and blackouts ravaged the country during Edward Heath's 'Winter of Discontent', sundry members of a wealthy, aristocratic family were being disposed of in a variety of grotesque ways - by reptile, by bomb, by haircut. As the hours of daylight diminish towards Christmas, Bryant & May, the irascible detectives of London's controversial Peculiar Crimes Unit, know that time is the key - and time is running out for both the family and the police. Their investigations lead them into a hidden world of class conflict, craftsmanship and the secret loyalties of big business. But what have seventy seven ticking clocks to do with it? Now the full story can at last be revealed, in this most eerie of adventures that features Arthur Bryant at his rudest, John May at his most exasperated and a gallery of colourful, bizarre characters who could only make their home in a city like London...

By: Christopher Fowler
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 325g
ISBN: 9780553817195
ISBN 10: 0553817191
Series: Bryant & May
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 01 November 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Fowler is the acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including the Bryant & May mysteries Full Dark House - which won the 2004 BFS August Derleth Award for Best Novel - and The Water Room - nominated for the CWA People's Choice Dagger Award. He is a director of the film-marketing company Creative Partnership and lives in North London. His new Bryant & May novel, Ten Second Staircase, is now available from Doubleday. Visit www.christopherfowler.co.uk

Reviews for Seventy-Seven Clocks: (Bryant & May Book 3)

Witty, charming, and informed about London, but - this is important - the storylines are vivid, tough and have a hard edge -- Marcel Berlins * THE TIMES * Witty, sinuous and darkly comedic storytelling from a Machiavellian jokester -- Maxim Jacubowski * GUARDIAN *