Ten-Second Staircase

Bryant & May Book 4

Christopher Fowler

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Bantam
03 September 2007

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Crime ; Detective Horror

Series: Bryant & May

Fiction's most enigmatic detectives since Holmes & Watson return in their fourth outrageously entertaining adventure...

A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows - the only witness is a small boy who insists the murderer was a masked man on a horse. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors... Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve. But Bryant has lost his nerve following a disastrous public appearance, and May is fighting to keep the unit from closure. Worse still, the case of the Leicester Square Vampire, an unsolved mystery from the past that changed both their lives, has returned to haunt them.

With a sinister modern-day highwayman bringing terror to the London streets in a series of crimes each more puzzling than the last, the elderly detectives track their suspect to an exclusive private school and a deprived housing estate. But just when they need all the help they can get to uncover a new breed of criminal, the highwayman is hailed a national hero, and the public turns against them...

Bryant & May are back on the case in an adventure that explores the dark side of celebrity, the conflicts of youth, age and class, and the peculiar myths of old London.

By: Christopher Fowler
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 194mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780553817201
ISBN 10: 0553817205
Series: Bryant & May
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 03 September 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Fowler is the acclaimed author of fifteen novels, including the Bryant & May mysteries Full Dark House - winner of the 2004 BFS August Derleth Award for Best Novel, The Water Room - nominated for the CWA People's Choice Dagger Award, Seventy-Seven Clocks and the new novel White Corridor. He lives in King's Cross, London. Visit www.christopherfowler.co.uk

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

Places Fowler in the first rank of contemporary mystery writers * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * Genuinely witty and original...madly entertaining. Fowler is in exuberant form here...the suspense is thrilling * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW *