The Water Room

(Bryant & May Book 2)

By: Christopher Fowler

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Hardcover | 1 September 2004

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When an elderly lady is found inside her own house with her lungs full of river water, London's Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to search for a logical solution. But the property's next tenant is plagued by mysterious damp patches and the sound of rushing water, and Arthur Bryant decides to divert the investigation into strange new territory. Meanwhile, his partner John May finds himself in hot water when he sets out to save the reputation of an academic whose arcane knowledge of London's forgotten underground rivers looks set to destroy his career. The geriatric detectives soon discover that in a city full of the rich, the poor and the dispossessed, there's still something for which a desperate murderer is willing to kill again. Pooling their information to investigate hitherto undiscovered secrets of the city, Bryant and May make some sinister connections. With the death-toll climbing and the unit facing an uncertain future, the nation's oddest investigators prepare to face madness, greed and revenge armed only with their wits, alcohol and boiled sweets in a mystery that goes to the heart of every London home...

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Doddering detectives Arthur Bryant and John May are back for a new mystery which this time plunges them into the dark regions beneath London's streets. The geriatric duo, the capital's oldest detectives, are attached to the Peculiar Crimes Unit which is running through a sticky patch and it seems only they can get it out of the fix. But they have other problems - not least the mystery of how an elderly lady came to die in her own home with her lungs full of river water. Then the new owner of the house reports some weird goings on that need an especially cantankerous approach - something tailor-made for the two heroes. More death comes calling and the tension, levened with a strong amount of humour, is cranked up by the page. This is a worthy follow-up to Full Dark House, the last comic thriller in which we met Bryant and May. (Kirkus UK)

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