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The Zig Zag Girl: The First Brighton Mystery
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Series: Brighton Mysteries, Book 1
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ISBN10: 0544811879
ISBN13: 9780544811874
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Sep 6 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780544811874
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Sep 6 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.
Captivating.--Wall Street Journal
An absorbing read, the debut of another great series.--San Jose Mercury News
A labyrinthine plot, a splendid reveal, and superb evocation of the wafer-thin veneer of glamour at the bottom end of showbusiness . . . Thoroughly enjoyable. --Guardian
Brighton, 1950. 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. 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. Max still performs, touring with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers, and dancing girls.
When Edgar asks for his help with the case, Max tells him to identify the victim, for it takes a special sidekick to do the Zig Zag Girl. Those words haunt Max when he learns the victim was a favorite former assistant of his own. And when Edgar receives a letter warning of another trick on the way, he realizes that it is the Magic Men themselves who are in the killer's sights.
Enormously engaging . . . Griffiths's plot is satisfyingly serpentine.--Daily Mail
Readers will finish looking forward to the next trick up [Griffiths's] sleeve.--Mystery Scene
Captivating.--Wall Street Journal
An absorbing read, the debut of another great series.--San Jose Mercury News
A labyrinthine plot, a splendid reveal, and superb evocation of the wafer-thin veneer of glamour at the bottom end of showbusiness . . . Thoroughly enjoyable. --Guardian
Brighton, 1950. 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. 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. Max still performs, touring with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers, and dancing girls.
When Edgar asks for his help with the case, Max tells him to identify the victim, for it takes a special sidekick to do the Zig Zag Girl. Those words haunt Max when he learns the victim was a favorite former assistant of his own. And when Edgar receives a letter warning of another trick on the way, he realizes that it is the Magic Men themselves who are in the killer's sights.
Enormously engaging . . . Griffiths's plot is satisfyingly serpentine.--Daily Mail
Readers will finish looking forward to the next trick up [Griffiths's] sleeve.--Mystery Scene
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