Ten Second Staircase - (Peculiar Crimes Unit) by Christopher Fowler (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>It's a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--but this time they <i>do</i> have an eyewitness. A twelve-year-old claims the killer was a cape-clad highwayman atop a black stallion. Whoever the killer really is, he seems intent on killing off enough minor celebrities to become one himself. As<b> </b>"Highwayman Fever" grips London, Bryant and May, along with the newest member of the Unit, May's agoraphobic granddaughter, April, find themselves sorting out a case involving artistic rivalries, sleazy sex affairs, the Knights Templars, feuding street gangs, and a decades-old crime spree that split up their partnership once before--and threatens to end it again...with murder<b>. <br></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The team of John May and Arthur Bryant...have the title 'Coolest Old Men' in a lock....I'd follow these two guys anywhere." --<i>New Orleans Times-Picayune<br></i><br>"Fowler is in exuberant form here...the suspense is thrilling." --<i>New York Times Book Review <p/></i>"A treat." --<i>Boston Globe <p/></i>"This fine effort places Fowler in the first rank of contemporary mystery writers." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Christopher Fowler </b>is the acclaimed author of the award-winning <i>Full Dark House </i>and nine other Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries: <i>The Water Room, Seventy-Seven Clocks, Ten Second Staircase, White Corridor, The Victoria Vanishes, Bryant & May on the Loose, Bryant & May off the Rails, The Memory of Blood, </i>and<i> The Invisible Code.</i> He lives in London, where he is at work on his next Peculiar Crimes Unit novel.
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