title: Seventy-Seven Clocks: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
author:  Christopher Fowler 
description: "Highly unusual ... exciting and original.... It starts with a violent death in the lobby of the legendary Savoy Hotel and quickly expands to include art vandalism, Gilbert and Sullivan, and a host of other peculiarities."<i>Chicago Tribune</i><br /><br />"A twisty thriller, full of action and plot surprises."<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />Invulnerable, genial and crafty. <i>Los Angeles Times<br /></i><br />Theyre old, theyre cranky, and their chaotic work habits inevitably lead to disaster. But life always seems livelier whenever Arthur Bryant and John May are on a case! <i>New York Times Book Review</i> <br /><br />Cranky, eccentric, and brilliant, Bryant and May dispense fascinating bits of knowledge as they solve supposedly unsolvable crimes. <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>
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  Christopher Fowler
  
  
  Seventy-Seven Clocks
  
  
  
  
  
  Bryant & May #3
  
  
  2005, EN
  
  
  “The newspapers referred to it as the case of
  
  
  the seventy seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at the time. We
  
  
  got into terrible trouble. Dear fellow, it was one of our most
  
  
  truly peculiar cases. I remember as if it was yesterday.” In fact,
  
  
  Arthur Bryant remembers very little about yesterday, but he does
  
  
  remember the oddest investigation of his career…It was late in
  
  
  1973\. As strikes and blackouts ravaged the country during Edward
  
  
  Heath’s ‘Winter of Discontent’, sundry members of a wealthy,
  
  
  aristocratic family were being disposed of in a variety of
  
  
  grotesque ways – by reptile, by bomb, by haircut. As the hours of
  
  
  daylight diminish towards Christmas, Bryant & May, the
  
  
  irascible detectives of London’s controversial Peculiar Crimes
  
  
  Unit, know that time is the key – and time is running out for both
  
  
  the family and the police. 