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The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Christopher Fowler
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Paperback, 323 pages; 2009 (2008)
$15.00
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The winner of Crimefest's "Last Laugh" award (for funniest mystery novel) in 2009, The Victoria Vanishes offers deliciously dry wit along with its darkly imaginative thrills. London's rather eccentric Peculiar Crimes Unit—created to investigate "the crimes deemed too abstract and bizarre to occupy the time of regular police forces"—takes on a curious serial murder case in which middle-aged women keep dropping dead in English pubs. One of PCU's brilliant (if unconventional) veteran detectives actually sees one of the victims just before she is killed, but, oddly, the pub where he swears to have seen her turns out to have been torn down decades ago! Complete with an index of names and addresses of all the London pubs mentioned in the book, The Victoria Vanishes is a delightfully surprising crime story.
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