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Brighton Mysteries The Zig Zag Girl: The First Brighton Mystery, Book 1, (Paperback)

Name: Brighton Mysteries The Zig Zag Girl: The First Brighton Mystery, Book 1, (Paperback)
Brand: Elly Griffiths
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Publishers Weekly,Mary Higgins Clark Award-winner Griffiths (The Crossing Places) launches a new series with this engaging mystery set in Brighton, England, in 1950. The Magic Men, a group of stage magicians who performed special missions during WWII, have since gone their separate ways. Only one, Max Mephisto, is still earning top billing on the variety circuit. Others have become a police officer, a wisecracking comedian, a carpenter. The oldest of the group has drifted lower and lower in the profession, performing to bored audiences in sleazy strip clubs. The gruesome murder of a glamorous magician's stage assistant draws the former team back together. The portrayal of the backstage life and the onstage performances of illusionists forms a fascinating backdrop to the main action. Brief flashbacks to the Magic Men's wartime missions provide an equally gripping backstory. As the plot deepens, Griffiths's tone darkens, leading to a series of surprise twists. Readers will look forward to seeing a lot more of Max and company. Agent: Rebecca Carter, Janklow & Nesbit. (Sept.) ??? Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Literature & Fiction
Publication date
September, 2016
Pages
336
Reading level
General/Trade

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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

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Book format

Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Fiction

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Publication date

September, 2016

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