Ten-Second Staircase: (Bryant & May Book 4) - Hardcover

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Christopher Fowler is the acclaimed author of twelve novels, including Roofworld, Spanky, Soho Black and the Bryant & May mysteries Full Dark House - which won the 2004 BFS August Derleth Award for Best Novel - and The Water Room - nominated for the Crime Writers' Association People's Choice Dagger Award and the 2005 August Derleth Award - and Seventy-Seven Clocks. He lives in London's King's Cross.

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It is a crime tailor-made for the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial contemporary artist murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence - which means business as usual for the PCU's decrepit and cantankerous detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May. But this time they have a witness - a twelve-year-old boy who swears the killer was a masked highwayman riding a black horse . . .

In the face of others' disbelief, Bryant and May take the sighting seriously - and then 'the Highwayman' is spotted again, at the scene of his next outlandish murder. Whatever the killer's real identity, he seems intent on ridding London of various minor celebrities while becoming one himself. As the tabloids begin to create 'Highwayman Fever', Bryant and May, together with the newest member of the team - May's agoraphobic granddaughter, April - find themselves baffled by a case that seems to involve everything from vicious artistic rivalries and sleazy sex to feuding street gangs and the Knights Templar. To crack it, they need to use every orthodox - and unorthodox - means at their disposal, including myth, witchcraft and the psycho-geographic history of London's 'monsters' past and present.

And if one unsolvable crime were not enough, it begins to look as though this case has disturbing links to a decades-old killing spree that nearly destroyed the partnership of Bryant and May once before . . . and might again.