Bought with birthday gift voucher and read almost immediately. I love Bryant and May books, even though the plots are often pretty ludicrous. I love the characters and the local detail. I was pleased to see a pub that I have visited feature in this book: the Seven Stars near Lincoln's Inn Fields. Lovely little pub, worth a visit.

I am reserving this for the time being in case Caterinaanna wants it after she's read the previous volumes in the series, which I have just given to her.

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Picked up at the Uncon - sorry for not journalling sooner - and read very quickly afterward because promised to send on ... and then didn't - sorry for that too!
Enjoyed this one as much as the others - in fact possibly more than some as the fate of the PCU is once again in the balance. So sad to think about what will happen when Bryant and May move on for good. :o(

Posting to the person who picked up all the B&M books I brought along to the Uncon. Sorry it took so long!

I was discussing the Bryant and May series with Caterinaanna at last year's Uncon, and this book has just arrived in the post from her.

Thank you!

'But seeing as you're here too, tell me, how long would it take a man to build a Victorian pub from scratch and then dismantle it again? Could he do it in a single night?'
Bryant explained his predicament.
Beaufort's initial look of surprise transmuted into concentration as he applied himself to the puzzle. 'It would be easier to go the other way around,' he said. 'Hide the pub behind a shop, because the Victorians built things to last. They used stronger mortar, thicker tiles, denser metals. But you could get a shop front up in an hour just by whacking a few sheets of coloured Perspex over the brickwork and holding them in place with a handful of screws. Cover the windows with posters, strip the interior furniture, hide the bar behind racks of magazines, hire some old guy to sit at a counter and fob you off with some story about how he'd been there for years. Pubs usually have the capacity to be brightly lit, because the lights are traditionally turned up after time has been called, so they wouldn't have to replace the lighting. I can see how that might just work.'
'I don't know, Bryant admitted. 'It sounds loopy even to me.'
'I didn't say it was a sane idea, just that it's possible.
There's one way to find out, said Beaufort. 'I've got a crowbar in my car.'

When several middle-aged women are murdered in London pubs without anyone noticing what is happening, the Pecular Crimes Unit are called in and Arthur Bryant's knowledge of arcane public house history soon leads them to a likely suspect. But were the victims really chosen at random or is there something else behind it?

The Home Office are still out to close the PCU down and rid themselves of the troublesome detectives, and things are looking bleak by the end of the book, but The Victoria Vanishes is book 6 in a series containing 15 novels and some short stories, so something must happen to save them in the next book.

I will be dropping some books off at the OBCZ when I attend a clothes swap at the shop.

Left on the shelf outside the Mezz bar.

Picked up in the Broadway cinema Nottingham as holiday reading. Left on holiday books case at the ground floor of the Atlantic Hotel , Hugh Town St Mary’s Scilly