Brighton,1950. When a girl's body is found,cut into three,Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick,the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick,Max Mephisto,is an old friend of Edgar's. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men. Max is still on the circuit,touring seaside towns in the company of ventriloquists,sword-swallowers and dancing girls. Changing times mean that variety is not what it once was,yet Max is reluctant to leave this world to help Edgar investigate. But when the dead girl turns out to be known to him,Max changes his mind. Another death,another magic trick: Edgar and Max become convinced that the answer to the murders lies in their army days. When Edgar receives a letter warning of another'trick',the Wolf Trap,he knows that they are all in the killer's sights...
Publisher: Quercus PublishingISBN: 9781784291969Number of pages: 352Weight: 249 gDimensions: 197 x 132 x 26 mm
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Enormously engaging...Post-war Brighton and its Theatre Royal are beautifully captured in all their seedy glory...subtle,charming and very goodEnormously engaging...Post-war Brighton and its Theatre Royal are beautifully captured in all their seedy glory...subtle,charming and very goodA colourful crowd of ventriloquists and sword-swallowers,a world lovingly re-created in this original,lively and gripping workA colourful crowd of ventriloquists and sword-swallowers,a world lovingly re-created in this original,lively and gripping workThe historical detail is very well done...The Zig Zag Girl is an extremely well-written and well-researched novelThe historical detail is very well done...The Zig Zag Girl is an extremely well-written and well-researched novel
Elly Griffiths
Elly Griffiths is the pen-name of British author Domenica de Rosa. A former Editorial Director for children's books at Harper Collins,Griffiths published her first novel,The Italian Quarter,in 1998 under her own name. A holiday in Norfolk inspired her to write what would become the bestselling novel The Crossing Places,the first novel in the Dr Ruth Galloway series of mystery novels and Rosa's first novel as Elly Griffiths. She is also the author of the popular Stephens and Mephisto novels which began with The Zig Zag Girl.
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