Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's little known Peculia Crimes Unit are London's longest-serving detectives. When a bomb claims Bryants life, it ends a partnership that has lasted for over half a century.
Desperately searching for clues to the killer's identity, May becomes convinced that the answer is to be found in their very first assignment together. It was in London, during the Blitz, and it all began when a beautiful dancer in a steamy new production of "Orpheus in the Underworld" was found without her feet.
And it was an investigation that would plunge the two young detectives into a bizarre gothic mystery - in pursuit of a faceless man who stalked the theatres of a nervous, beleaguered city already full of myth and rumour.

A murder mystery with a difference, this is a strange mix of creepy tale and comedy with a really weird hero and his long-suffering partner. I'll have to read more in the series just to see if it can get any more bonkers.

Left on picnic bench outside cafe.

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