Bookgasm comes through again with another recommendation going on my To Read list. Ten Second Staircase is the latest in a series, so actually there are four books going on the list: this one and the previous Full Dark House, Seventy-Seven Clocks, and The Water Room.Part of the attraction comes from the fact that I share my last name with one of the series' detectives, but mostly I'm all about the villain of Ten Second Staircase, a "V for Vendetta-style masked, caped rogue" called The Highwayman. It's also a locked-room mystery and I'm a sucker for those, especially ones that get compared to Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
