Peculiar Crimes Unit

I use real locations for most of my stories. It helps to get some sense of size and space when you have a lot of people moving around, so that the reader can visualise events more easily. Early Bryant & May readers will know that I used to have the PCU occupying the upper part […]

Remembering those Sherlock Holmes stories where Holmes enigmatically refers to an untold case as ‘that scandal of the Bohemian pilchard snatching’ and moves on to the investigation at hand, I started smuggling references of missing cases into the Bryant & May novels at a very early stage. The Leicester Square Vampire was suitably sorted out […]

…you’ll find the first post on Bryant & May – The Comic (we don’t say Graphic Novel anymore. I have this on good authority). The site is still coming together here (not enough hours in the day etc) and will be added to on a regular basis – with hopefully some kind of notification whenever […]

Keith Page has been hard at work on the finished script of the Bryant & May graphic novel, ‘The Soho Devil’. As soon as I get a chance, I’ll be creating a graphic novel section for the Peculiar Crimes Unit site here. The artwork has to be seen in its entirety to be fully appreciated, […]

The Peculiar Crimes Unit site here now has eight filing cabinet drawers full of esoteric bits and bobs on the Peculiar Crimes Unit, writing, mysteries, crime, weird books, maps and – coming soon – artwork. This means that all things Bryant & May are now in one place, and everything else, including details about several […]