The Zig Zag Girl

One of "Entertainment Weekly"'s 10 Great Fall Thrillers
"Clever, immensely likeable...Captivating." "The Wall Street Journal"
In the first installment of a compelling new series by Elly Griffiths featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and the magnificent Max Mephisto, a band of magici [...]
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One of "Entertainment Weekly"'s 10 Great Fall Thrillers
"Clever, immensely likeable...Captivating." "The Wall Street Journal"
In the first installment of a compelling new series by Elly Griffiths featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and the magnificent Max Mephisto, a band of magicians who served together in World War II track a killer who s performing their deadly tricks.
Brighton, 1950. The body of a girl is found cut into three pieces. 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, is an old war friend of Edgar s. They served together in a shadowy unit called the Magic Men, a special ops troop that used stage tricks to confound the enemy.Max is on the traveling show circuit, touring seaside towns with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers and dancing girls. He s reluctant to leave this world to help Edgar investigate, but advises him to identify the victim quickly it takes a special sidekickto do the Zig Zag Girl. Those words come back to hauntMax when the dead girl turns out to be Ethel, one of his best assistants to date. He s soon at Edgar s side, hunting for Ethel s killer.Another death, another magic trick: Edgar and Max are sure the answer to the murders lies in their army days. And when Edgar receives a letter warning of another trick on the way the Wolf Trap he knows they re all in the killer s sights.
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