Part of Series
The first graphic "comic" version of an Arthur Bryant & John May short story, The Soho Devil!, beautifully illustrated by Keith Page. A bonus second illustrated short, The Severed Claw, is included. This high-quality hardback also contains the essay How to Invent a Mystery Series, Arthur Bryant's Secret Library, The Peculiar Crimes Unit Sketch Gallery, and The Strange Cases of Bryant & May (consisting of the covers and first flyleaf material of all ten B&M novels published so far.) Planned as an annual series, the second volume will contain a graphic rendering of story The Deptford Demon. Plans for more volumes have unfortunately been 'shelved'.
Author
Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Christopher Fowler was an English novelist living in London. His books contain elements of black comedy, anxiety and social satire. As well as novels, he wrote short stories, scripts, press articles and reviews. He lived in King's Cross, on the Battlebridge Basin, and chose London as the backdrop of many of his stories because any one of the events in its two-thousand-year history can provide inspiration. In 1998 he was the recipient of the BFS Best Short Story of the Year, for 'Wageslaves'. Then, in 2004, The Water Room was nominated for the CWA People's Choice Award, Full Dark House won the BFS August Derleth Novel of The Year Award 2004 and 'American Waitress' won the BFS Best Short Story of the Year 2004. The novella 'Breathe' won BFS Best Novella 2005.
