![]() ![]() Both at a distance from the nearest town, both limited in contact with help from the outside world. ![]() The old piles are depicted as either falling down or just older than dirt. The author, in a brilliant move, recounts one of their very early cases that takes place in their misspent youth, in a misspent time.īoth stories are set in Manor Houses in the country. ![]() How can Bryant and May be set in ’62 ask fans of the Peculiar Crime Unit? Because Bryant and May were young policemen at one point in time, not the old fogeys Fowler makes them out to be now. ![]() This I like.īoth books take place post WW2, the Duncan is set closer, the Fowler later, in 1962. Fowler would howl at that, but genre is in the eye of the reader who can find similarities with other books in common with their likes and dislikes. I knew nothing about either and was happy to find that both are what I would call Locked Room mysteries in the Agatha Christie genre. A cozy in the Mordecai Tremaine series by Francis Duncan, Murder for Christmas. One of them, just published in 2018, is Christopher Fowler’s joyous new Bryant and May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit in London. I’m pleasantly halfway through two books read as simultaneously as possible and enjoyed together, separately, equally and with relish. Eleanor here - Heidi’s posting for me through a computer crisis. ![]()
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