Ten second staircase
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 4.
Series:
Bryant and May mysteries volume 4
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Pub. Date:
2006
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English
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–it’s business as usual for the Unit’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 boy’s story sounds, Bryant and May take it seriously when “The Highwayman” is spotted again, striking a dramatic pose at the scene of his next outlandish murder. Whatever the killer’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 “Highwayman Fever,” Bryant and May, along with the newest member of the Unit, May’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, they’re going to have to use every orthodox–and unorthodox–means at their disposal, including myth, witchcraft, and the psychogeographic history of the city’s “monsters,” past and present.
And if one unsolvable crime weren’t enough, this case has disturbing links to a decades-old killing spree that nearly destroyed the partnership of Bryant and May once before…and may again. The Peculiar Crimes Unit is one murder away from being closed down for good–and that murder could be their own.
As implausible as the boy’s story sounds, Bryant and May take it seriously when “The Highwayman” is spotted again, striking a dramatic pose at the scene of his next outlandish murder. Whatever the killer’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 “Highwayman Fever,” Bryant and May, along with the newest member of the Unit, May’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, they’re going to have to use every orthodox–and unorthodox–means at their disposal, including myth, witchcraft, and the psychogeographic history of the city’s “monsters,” past and present.
And if one unsolvable crime weren’t enough, this case has disturbing links to a decades-old killing spree that nearly destroyed the partnership of Bryant and May once before…and may again. The Peculiar Crimes Unit is one murder away from being closed down for good–and that murder could be their own.
Subjects
Subjects
Artists
Artists -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Bryant, Arthur
Bryant, Arthur -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Crimes against
Detective and mystery fiction
England -- Fiction
Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
May, John
May, John -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Mystery
Older men
Older men -- Fiction
Police
Police -- England -- London -- Fiction
Suspense
Thriller
Artists -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Bryant, Arthur
Bryant, Arthur -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Crimes against
Detective and mystery fiction
England -- Fiction
Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
May, John
May, John -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Mystery
Older men
Older men -- Fiction
Police
Police -- England -- London -- Fiction
Suspense
Thriller
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Ten second staircase / Christopher Fowler
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