A series of short stories featuring the eponymous detectives is prefaced by the author's
comments on earlier detective novels and rounded off by comments on the Bryant and
May books to date with an indication of the inspirational source. The individual
stories are all in the same vein as the full length novels with esoteric facts about London
and unsual settings and methods of killing. People are killed in locked rooms, in
the centre of snow-covered fields with no tracks except the victim's, with some very
unusual ways of causing death involved. Despite the unsavoury subject of murder,
the stories, like the novels, have a lightness of touch which is, in no small part, a
reflection of the pair and their interaction with each other. The short stories are an
excellent introduction to the novels providing a feast of enjoyment.
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