Peculiar Crimes Unit

Ten Second Staircase: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

By: Christopher Fowler

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30 September 2008

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368

Dimensions(cm)
20.96 x 13.97 x 2.54

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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 againwith murder.

Industry Reviews

"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

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