Little Hands Clapping

In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers, lives the Old Man. Caretaker of the museum by day, by night he enjoys the sound of silence, broken by the occasional crunch of a spider between his blackened teeth. Little Hands Clapping brings together the Old Man with the respectable Doctor Ernst Frohlicher, his greedy dog Hans and a cast of grotesque and hilarious townsfolk, all of whose lives are thrown together as the town uncovers a crime so outrageous that it will shock the world. From its sinister opening to its explosive denouement, Little Hands Clapping blends lavishly entertaining storytelling with Rhodes's macabre imagination, entrancing originality and magical touch.

Reviews

• "Little Hands Clapping is Rhodes's fourth novel and sixth book overall, and it is without doubt his most accomplished yet... Almost every page of Little Hands Clapping has superb quirks or asides which will have the reader laughing." Doug Johnstone, The Scotsman