London, 1969.
Eccentric and consistently entertaining."--Booklist "Fowler evokes the period as neatly as he cr. . . .
Woodhouse."--The Wall Street Journal "More fully fleshed-out suspects, clues, red herrings, twists, and honest Mystery and detection than in the last three whodunits you read."--Kirkus Reviews "The narrative veers] between laugh-out-loud funny to macabre.
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As always in this series, this one\'s a lark."--The New York Times Book Review " Hall of Mirrors is] a largely comic escapade whose tone evokes both the biting wit of Evelyn Waugh and the slapsticker shenanigans of P. . . .
Praise for Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors "Arthur Bryant has written his memoirs--and a jolly good yarn they make, too.
Trapped for the weekend, Bryant and May must sort the victims from the suspects, including a hippie heir, a blond nightclub singer, and Monty himself--and nobody is quite who he or she seems to be.
With falling stone gryphons, secret passageways, rumors of a mythical beast, and an all-too-real dismembered corpse, the bedeviled policemen soon find themselves with "a proper country house murder" on their hands.
The task proves unexpectedly challenging when their unruly charge insists on attending a party at the vast estate Tavistock Hall.
The job for the demoted detectives? Keep the whistle-blower safe for one weekend.
Flashback to London 1969: mods and dolly birds, sunburst minidresses--but how long would the party last? After accidentally sinking a barge painted like the Yellow Submarine, Bryant and May are relegated to babysitting one Monty Hatton-Jones, the star prosecution witness in the trial of a disreputable developer whose prefabs are prone to collapse. or at least younger. . .
Hard to believe, but even positively ancient sleuths like Bryant and May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit were young once .
With the Swinging Sixties under way, Detectives Arthur Bryant and John May find themselves caught in the middle of a good, old-fashioned manor house murder mystery.
London, 1969
