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"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,...
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"In the sequel to the "captivating"* Zig Zag Girl, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale. *Wall Street Journal It's Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He's investigating the murder of two children, Annie and...
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Stephens and Mephisto novels volume 6
Brighton Mysteries
The Brighton Mysteries volume Book 6
Magic men mystery volume 6
Brighton Mysteries
The Brighton Mysteries volume Book 6
Magic men mystery volume 6
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"Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they're chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. The only hitch--the Brighton police are already on the case, putting Emma in direct competition with her husband, police superintendent Edgar Stephens. Soon...
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Something strange is in the Brighton air. Everywhere newly-promoted Sarah Gilchrist looks, unsettling things are happening. A Wicker Man is burned on the beach at dawn with a body inside; a painting titled "The Devil's Alter" is stolen from the Brighton Museum; a vicar who casts out demons goes missing; and a rare medieval manuscript of the occult "Key of Solomon" is stolen from the Jubilee Library. Old Religion and New Age collide and the body...
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"Brighton has been invaded. The barbarians are at the gate. Pitiless men who want-- everything. Vengeful men who kill without conscience and threaten the lives of ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts, his comrade-in-arms Jimmy Tingley, DS Sarah Gilchrist and--above all--Brighton's crime king, John Hathaway"--From publisher description.
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The reopened investigation of an unsolved murder in 1934 in which an unidentified woman's torso was found in a trunk at Brighton railway and her legs and feet at King's Cross is discovered to have links to a 2009 massacre in Brighton's Milldean neighborhood.
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"The fifth book in the Magic Men series, Now You See Them is a wild mystery with detective Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto, as they investigate a string of presumed kidnappings in the swinging 1960s"--
Edgar Stephens is now a Superintendent and married to former DS Emma Holmes. Magician Max Mephisto is a movie star in Hollywood, while his daughter Ruby has her own TV show. When an investigation into a string of disappearing girls starts,...
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"With the local lido under threat of closure by ruthless businesswoman Alison Sutherland, the Save the Salthaven Lido campaigners are fighting a desperate battle to keep it open. When the lead campaigner is discovered dead, partially drowned and stabbed repeatedly, suspicion falls upon Alison. No sooner have DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap spoken to Alison, one of her colleagues suffers a heart attack - despite being in good health - during...
11) Glimpses
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Murder, mystery, humor and the supernatural all in small town Tennessee!
Jon Brighton is from a small town- one that he desperately wants to escape from.
His idyllic youth was shattered when he lost his Mom in an accident. His relationship with his father has been strained ever since and his loosely executed plan to graduate from college and get away for good is unraveling.
He thinks it's because he can't stay focused or find any direction, but...
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Brighton novels volume 7
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"When Major Richard Rabbitt, owner of a large estate in Sussex, is found floating in a lake belonging to Nimue Grace, a charismatic former Hollywood actress, DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap are called in to investigate - and quickly discover Rabbitt was a notoriously difficult man to deal with. Rabbitt was hated by his estranged wife, had several rivalries with residents of the area, and was involved in a number of deals with other shady businessmen...
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Severn House
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Ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts is hoping to ease gently into his new role as Brighton's first Police Commissioner but is hit with a shocking scandal involving the director of the Royal Pavilion. In the subsequent investigation, Detective Inspector Sarah Gilchrist and Detective Sergeant Bellamy Heap are bemused by the discovery of looted antiquities from Cambodia's Angkor Watt in the tunnels beneath the Pavilion, but the further discovery of a corpse...
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