“The Dark Full House” is a world bestseller, undoubtedly the most famous book of the fashionable English writer Christopher Fowler. Fowler, the author of fourteen novels and nine collections of short stories, lives and works in Central London. He heads the company Creative Partnership and has developed advertising campaigns for films by such directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli, David Cronenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Greenaway, Ridley Scott, as well as for the Russian Night Watch. Success has always accompanied Fowler's books, but "Dark Full House" broke all previous records. The novel about detectives Bryant and May from the London Police Anomalous Crimes Unit is read all over the world. This story begins in the present day with a terrible explosion that destroyed the headquarters of Scotland Yard, but its roots go back to the past, when two young detectives were just starting their police service and under German bombs they investigated their first crime - the mysterious death of a prima ballerina who was rehearsing the main role in Jacques Offenbach's operetta "Orpheus in Hell."