Off The Rails And Into The Bookshops!
‘Bryant & May Off The Rails’ came out in paperback yesterday, and to celebrate I hid a dozen signed and dated editions around Central London today for you to discover. s far as I can tell, only one copy wasn’t found.
But let’s have a competition as well: Come up with the name of a likely Bryant & May case from the past, and I’ll include it in the next book. Last year’s winner, who came up with ‘The Belles Of Westminster’, has gone into ‘The Memory Of Blood’, out in September.
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The Kennington Conundrum
The Windmill Blades.
Wapping Firebug
The Crouch End Creeper?
“The Highbury Horrors” (sorry I’m an Arsenal fan, and we’ve seen some horrors lately)
Is it “Off The Rails” or “Of The Rails”? Some signed mistyped copies would be worth a fortune…well maybe not that much!
Excuse me, that’s worth as much as the Queen’s head being on back to front on a Penny Black!
The Exmouth Market Flasher!
(not at all “likely”)
The Crossharbour Piranhas
When doe the treasure hunt start?
At about 2pm I’d imagine – if I can get my act together today….
The Fulham Sweeper
The Barnsbury Blaggard.
He’s a cad, you know.
The Curse of the Cordwainer – a killer who creeps about in really soft leather shoes so his victims can’t hear him coming.
This is the best I can come up with – sad I know.
Even sadder that I can’t visit London to hunt for books.
Mary
The Swiss Cottage Pies….. or The Swiss Cottagers. You decide.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Setting off on Treasure Hunt now – follow me on Twitter in 10 minutes!
The Lord Numb
Cleopatra’s Needle Exchange
The Limehouse Ratboy
The South Bank Job
Ordered my copy from Amazon UK. Gods bless them, they currently have a special whereby we Antipodeans can get free postage if we spend more than 25 quid. Picked up a number of bargains, and they’re already wending their merry way southwards. :o)
Anyway…
The Sailor’s Antimacassar.
Apparently that’s the flap at the back of sailor’s uniforms. Also, according to Wiki, Jack the Ripper’s second victim made antimacassars for a living. And it would give you a good excuse to put the word ‘antimacassar’ into one of your stories. :o)
The Chalk Farm Chopper (hits close to home for Bryant)
The Hounds of Hammersmith
Maida Vale/Mayfair Monster
The Docklands Drownings
The Belgravia Basher
The Devilish Hansom – A series of bizarre night-time thefts from the bedrooms of sleeping ladies by a handsome rogue in Victorian attire, who always escapes through the window and into a hansom cab pulled by a ghostly steed.
Once again, I’m buying multiple copies as giveaways for friends & acquaintances with taste… Every new B&M outing has become its own kind of small event for me, so I hope you can keep them coming for a good, long time.
Come on, you know I can’t resist this one:
The Electric Book!
LMAO!
The Limehouse Golem…no, wait, that’s been done.
The Colney Hatch banshee
The rusted-nail bandit of Finchley Road
The Kensington tooth-puller
The Brief Encounter killer, who courts married ladies in station cafes
This could be a new pub game.
The Kings Cross Stitch Up
The Regency Canelloni (obviously a poisoning)
Swiss Cottage Curtains
I’d love to fit in St Pancras but we’re back to body parts -The St. Pancras Pancras, Heart & Lungs
Out Under the Tiles (takes place at Christmas while they raise the giant Christmas Tree)
The Serpentine Snake
I rather like getting Kings Cross, cross stitch and stitch up all in one.
The Russell Square Crow?
The Mousetrap Murders?
Oh come on! Have you lot forgotten the baffling female nail?
The Cockney Cannibal!
Hi Chris,
For what it’s worth here’s my suggestions.
The Giltspur arsonist.
The Boggaty Marsh cryer.
The Routemaster Sweetheart Slayings.
All best
STALKY
How about The Aldwych Assassin? Or the Crouch End carpet bagger? (very nearly the crotch end carpet bagger by the time my predictive text had kicked in..,)
Ohh, the shame, Alan…the ‘Baffling Female Nail’! How could I possibly have forgotten?
Question though, could the Evil Book Pirate sue Admin for using that phrase?
How about ‘The Alabaster Monocle’
The Mudlark Murder.
The Turnpike Throttler.
Ten Bells.
Our best suggestions:
The Highgate Hysteria
The Beast of Battersea
The Temple Terror
The Clapham Claw
Surely a winner there!?
The Stroud Green Mustard Poisonings.
The Serpentine Serpant
The Bermondsey Banshee
Yikes – there are some good ones here! Okay you lot, let’s call a moratorium on this and I’ll choose one tomorrow…
hello
what a wonderful book for anyone to read full to the brim of adventure well done Christopher
I will read all the bryant and may titles.
Best wishes
alan