Ten Second Staircase: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Christopher Fowler

$16.00

Publication Date: September 30th, 2008

Publisher:

Bantam

ISBN:

9780553385564

Pages:

368

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Description

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 do 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 “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.

About the Author

Christopher Fowler was the acclaimed author of the award-winning Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries: Full Dark House, 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, The Invisible Code, Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart, Bryant & May and the Burning Man, Bryant & May: Strange Tide, Bryant & May: Wild Chamber, Bryant & May: Hall of Mirrors, Bryant & May: The Lonely Hour, Bryant & May: Oranges & Lemons, Bryant & May: London Bridge Is Falling Down, and Bryant & May: Peculiar London. In 2015 Fowler won the coveted Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library Award in recognition for his body of work. Christopher Fowler died in 2023.

Praise for Ten Second Staircase: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

“The team of John May and Arthur Bryant…have the title ‘Coolest Old Men’ in a lock.…I’d follow these two guys anywhere.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune

“Fowler is in exuberant form here…the suspense is thrilling.” —New York Times Book Review

“A treat.” —Boston Globe

“This fine effort places Fowler in the first rank of contemporary mystery writers.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review