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

Ten Second Staircase
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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
Brand Brand: Bantam
Manufacturer Bantam
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-06-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780553804492

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2006-06-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780553804492

Ten Second Staircase

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