Full Dark House. Signed UK first / first, inscribed 'The first Bryant and May mystery'

Fowler, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0385605536 / ISBN 13: 9780385605533

Published by Doubleday, 2003

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UK 1st edition / 1st printing (Doubleday, 2003). Flatsigned and inscribed, "The first Bryant and May mystery" to the title page. Near Fine / Near Fine condition with a hint of pushing to the top of the spine, a very small bump to the foredge top corner and slight age-tanning to pages. Protected dustwrapper. PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING Our descriptions are accurate. Photos are of the actual book(s) for sale ? if you require additional photos, please ask. We will despatch your books rapidly (almost always within 24 hrs of the receipt of your order) using proper book wraps / boxes. For books sold for more than £50 we will use only despatch methods that are fully tracked, insured and will require a signature on delivery. Postage costs are included in our prices for UK customers. For overseas customers, we have set a standard Abe postal rate, but will communicate direct with customers and charge the actual cost of postage and packing by tracked and insured delivery methods requiring signature. Please note that new EU regulations make it impractical for us to post books to the EU. Therefore, prospective customers from the EU are requested to email us before making an order so that we can discuss how best we might get the books they want to them.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Full Dark House. Signed UK first / first, inscribed 'The first Bryant and May mystery'
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385605536
• ISBN 13: 9780385605533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit and claims the life of Arthur Bryant, his partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity. Before long he is on the trail through Blitz-ravaged London and the gothic world of the theatre.

From the Inside Flap

Edgy, 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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From the Hardcover edition.