![]() ![]() ![]() Max still performs, touring with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers, and dancing girls. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, served with Edgar in a special ops group called the Magic Men that used stage illusions to confound the enemy. A girl is found cut into three sections, and Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick-the Zig Zag Girl. Thoroughly enjoyable.” -Guardianīrighton, 1950. ![]() “A labyrinthine plot, a splendid reveal, and superb evocation of the wafer-thin veneer of glamour at the bottom end of showbusiness. “An absorbing read, the debut of another great series.”-San Jose Mercury News The chilling debut mystery in the Brighton Mysteries series from Edgar Allen Poe Award-winner Elly Griffiths-author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries-about a band of magicians who served together in World War II tracking a killer who’s performing their deadly tricks. ![]()
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