Griffiths Elly - The Zig Zag Girl The First Brighton Mystery - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: The Zig Zag Girl The First Brighton Mystery
Author(s): Griffiths Elly
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780544811874
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/6/2016
Series: Brighton Mysteries