The Case of the Sixty-Six Seconds
On the railway line to Birmingham, on the Marylebone-Aylesbury section, there is a station where trains do not stop. It looks like any other station, but there’s no sign and it doesn’t appear on any maps. A single train stops there, every night, at midnight: for just over a minute. Sixty-six seconds exactly. Nobody gets on, nobody gets off. For the most part, passengers are too sleepy to notice and no one asks questions. At least until one morning, when a blurb in the Morning Post features a traveller's complaint.
Four inseparable friends read it and are so fascinated by the story that they decided to solve its mystery by getting into a carriage and waiting... sixty-six seconds.
"The Case of the Sixty-Six Seconds" is the first novel in the "Order of the Garland" saga by Tommaso Percivale, a series that has all the ingredients of a children's mystery that will also appeal to adults. The plot transports the reader to Victorian London with essential and pleasant writing, and takes them to the end of the tale as fast as a train, without ever losing focus. The narrative structure of “The Case of the Sixty-Six Seconds” is seamless and brisk, teeming with the perfect plots to stimulate the minds of its readers while also addressing universal themes – such as friendship – alongside a good dose of female empowerment.
Il caso dei sessantasei secondi
Tommaso Percivale
Mondadori, 2022