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Author
Series
Brighton mystery volume 2
Publisher
Severn House Pub. Ltd
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Series
Brighton mystery volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st world ed.
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts investigates what really happened in the unsolved Brighton Trunk Murder of 1934; Sarah Gilchrist probes the Milldean Massacre; and Jimmy Tingley tails the Balkan gangsters who wreaked havoc in Brighton.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Brighton volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During a theatre performance Detective Inspector Sarah Gilchrist is reluctantly attending, blood begins soaking through a curtain startling one actor into falling to his death from the stage. The source of the blood: Elvira Wright, the lead actress, has been bludgeoned by a lead weight used for opening the curtain.Meanwhile former Hollywood actress Nimue Grace is attracting attention from a notorious gangster. When she stumbles across something horrific...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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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