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The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)

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| August 25, 2008 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

* The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery Christopher Fowler. Bantam, $24 (336p) ISSN 978-0-553-80502-4

Officialdom casts a skeptical eye on the unorthodox crime solving of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit in Fowler's excellent sixth novel to feature senior detectives Arthur Bryant and John May (after 2007's White Corridor). While the unit's members scheme to insure their professional survival, a serial killer is targeting middle-aged women who drop dead in pubs, apparently of natural causes. Bryant puts the investigation on his team's …

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