Ten-second staircase
By: by Christopher Fowler
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780750529785
Subjects: Fiction; Police
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.
Notes: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2006.