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strike a light! |
Lobsters on the lawn and an
elderly crime-fighting duo. Welcome to the world of author Christopher
Fowler, writes Kim Janssen
WHEN an uncooked lobster mysteriously appeared on author Christopher
Fowler’s Kentish Town lawn, it set him thinking.
How had it got there, and what would Bryant and May, his comic,
elderly crime-fighting duo make of it?
Sitting in The Pineapple pub in Leverton Street, Kentish Town –
the much loved boozer he and other locals saved from property developers
a couple of years ago – his steady stream of anecdotes is,
if anything, even more colourful than the riddles faced by Bryant
and May’s Peculiar Crimes Unit.
He explains: “It was just sitting there on the lawn in Cathcart
Street.
“There was a fish restaurant a bit further up the street and
I thought that maybe someone had thrown it over the fence for a
joke.
“But, really, it was too far – they’d have had to
throw it really hard and it probably would have been damaged, so
that didn’t make sense.
“Then, a few months later, I had some friends round for dinner
and I was out the back and I noticed the drain cover moving.
“A crayfish crawled out and onto the lawn. In case my friends
didn’t believe me I sent it to the Natural History Museum and
a zoologist there wrote back and told me yes, it was a Turkish Crayfish
and they now lived in our canals, drains and sewers and they were
forcing out our Great British Crayfish.
“He was actually quite nationalistic and upset about it but
the story ended up in the Fortean Times. |
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