Seventy-Seven Clocks -- Christopher Fowler

A mysterious stranger in outlandish Edwardian garb defaces a Pre-Raphaelite painting in the National Gallery. Then a guest at the exclusive Savoy Hotel is fatally bitten by a marshland snake. Over the next several days, an outbreak of increasingly bizarre crimes will hit London--and, fittingly, come to the attention of the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Art vandalism, an exploding suspect, pornography, rat poison, Gilbert and Sullivan musicals, secret societies...and not a single suspect in sight. The killer they're chasing has a dark history, a habit of staying hidden, and time itself on his side. Detectives May and Bryant are racing the clock and this time the bell may be tolling for them.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Christopher Fowler<br><b>Publisher:</b> Bantam<br><b>Published:</b> 09/30/2008<br><b>Pages:</b> 512<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.25lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780553385540<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Christopher Fowler </b>is the acclaimed author of the award-winning <i>Full Dark House </i>and nine other Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries: <i>The Water Room, Seventy-Seven Clocks, Ten Second Staircase, White Corridor, The Victoria Vanishes, Bryant & May on the Loose, Bryant & May off the Rails, The Memory of Blood, </i>and<i> The Invisible Code.</i> He lives in London, where he is at work on his next Peculiar Crimes Unit novel.</p>