Publisher's Synopsis
It is a crime tailor-made for the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial contemporary artist murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy who swears the killer was a masked highwayman riding a black horse... In the face of disbelief the PCU's cantankerous detectives Arthur Bryant and John May take the sighting seriously - and then 'the Highwayman' is spotted at the scene of another murder. As the tabloids create 'Highwayman Fever', Bryant and May need to use all means at their disposal, both orthodox and unorthodox, to crack this baffling case.
