[Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit 16.50] • Bryant & May – England’s Finest

Twelve more missing cases from the archive of the Peculiar Crimes Unit. And they nearly were missing too, as unit chief Raymond Land explains in his foreword, 'because Arthur Bryant left the files on the floor where the Two Daves had decided to stand their mini-cement mixer, and it was only my quick thinking that saved the day...'.

The cases here include the festive gem 'Bryant May and the Seventh Reindeer' plus other delights such as 'Bryant May meet Dracula', 'Bryant May's Day Off' and 'Bryant May and the Breadcrumb Trail'. And if twelve new tales with their glorious mix of esoterica, detective work and low comedy weren't enough, this collection also includes such delightful extras as 'A Brief History of Bryant May', potted biographies of the members of the PCU and their associates plus Christopher Fowler's own notes on each of these cases, and an afterword in which he explains how he believes Golden Age detectives can work - even flourish - in the modern technological age.