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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🗸 Author(s): Elly Griffiths
🗸 Title: The Zig Zag Girl (Stephens and Mephisto Mystery)
🗸 Rating : 4.1 from 5 stars (2518 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
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🗸 Supported Devices: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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