Ten Second Staircase A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Name: Ten Second Staircase A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
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ISBN: 9780553385564

ISBN-10: 0553385569

ISBN-13: 9780553385564

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Authors: Christopher Fowler

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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–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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.24" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Christopher Fowler is a Londoner born (in Greenwich) and bred. For many years he jointly owned and ran one of the UK's top film marketing companies. He is the author of many novels and short story collections, from the urban unease of cult fictions such as Roofworld and Spanky, the horror-pastiche of Hell Train to the much-praised and award-winning Bryant and May series of detective novels - and his two critically acclaimed autobiographies, Paperboy and Film Freak. He lives in King's Cross.