Ten Second Staircase

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Ten Second Staircase

Itâ€™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 evidenceâ€“itâ€™s business as usual for the Unitâ€™s cantankerous founding partners, Arthur Bryant and John May. But this time they have an eyewitness. According to twelve-year-old Luke Tripp, the killer was a cape-clad highwayman atop a black stallion.

As implausible as the boyâ€™s story sounds, Bryant and May take it seriously when â€œThe Highwaymanâ€ is spotted again, striking a dramatic pose at the scene of his next outlandish murder. Whatever the killerâ€™s real identity, he seems intent on killing off a string of minor celebrities while becoming one himself.

As the tabloids look to make a quick bundle on â€œHighwayman Fever,â€ Bryant and May, along with the newest member of the Unit, Mayâ€™s agoraphobic granddaughter, April, find themselves sorting out a case involving an unlikely combination of artistic rivalries, sleazy sex affairs, the Knights Templars, and street gang feuds. To do it, theyâ€™re going to have to use every orthodoxâ€“and unorthodoxâ€“means at their disposal, including myth, witchcraft, and the psychogeographic history of the cityâ€™s â€œmonsters,â€ past and present.

And if one unsolvable crime werenâ€™t enough, this case has disturbing links to a decades-old killing spree that nearly destroyed the partnership of Bryant and May once beforeâ€¦and may again. The Peculiar Crimes Unit is one murder away from being closed down for goodâ€“and that murder could be their own.

Country	USA
Author	Christopher Fowler
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Bantam
EAN	9780553804492
Edition	1st
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0553804499
Label	Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	356
PublicationDate	2006-06-27
Publisher	Bantam
ReleaseDate	2006-06-27
Studio	Bantam

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