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Title details for Ten-Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler - Available

Ten-Second Staircase

#4 in series

by Christopher Fowler
Tim Goodman
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An artist is found dead in a gallery with locked doors and windows. 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 and May is fighting to keep the unit from closure. Worse still, an unsolved mystery from the past has returned to haunt them...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bryant & May

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 1, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781407426310
      • File size: 389650 KB
      • Duration: 13:31:46

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Arthur Bryant and John May are a pair of superannuated London investigators who work in something called the Peculiar Crimes Unit. To describe them as eccentric is putting it mildly, so they make a feast for an expert character actor like Tim Goodman. They harrumph, they pontificate, they mix up their pills, and drop their cell phones in the soup as they defy the Metropolitan Police who want to shut them down and race time to solve a series of extremely "peculiar" murders--murders that, in fact, can't have happened, at least not the way witnesses describe them. A horseman dressed as The Highwayman galloped through an art gallery? A man struck by lightning indoors? All wildly improbable, but terrific fun. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from May 8, 2006
      After the somewhat disappointing Seventy-seven Clocks
      (2005), British author Fowler smoothly blends humor, deduction and social commentary in his fourth oddball whodunit to pay homage to John Dickson Carr and other golden age masters of the impossible crime story. Besides matching a bizarre series of crimes with a logical and plausible fair-play solution, the novel features a high level of psychological complexity, especially in its detectives, the elderly eccentrics Arthur Bryant (who clearly channels Carr's brilliant curmudgeon, Sir Henry Merrivale) and John May. With the pair's beloved Peculiar Crimes Unit on the brink of extinction, Bryant and May must both resolve a cold case featuring the Leicester Square Vampire, whose victims included May's own daughter, and identify the Highwayman, who specializes in locked-room murders of hated celebrities. Far superior to the author's best earlier work, this fine effort places Fowler in the first rank of contemporary mystery writers and whets the appetite for the next Bryant and May case.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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