Blue Rose Trilogy · Book 2
Mystery
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 548
- ISBN-13
- 9780671044633
- Type
- novel

About this book
Mystery followed in 1990, slightly shorter at 548 pages, shifting focus to young Tom Pasmore's fixation on solving murders under the tutelage of an aging detective.
Its place in Blue Rose Trilogy
Mystery is book 2 in the Blue Rose Trilogy series. It follows Koko. It is followed by The Throat. See the full Blue Rose Trilogy reading order.
The Blue Rose Trilogy is Peter Straub's loosely connected sequence of literary horror-mysteries, named for the words a killer leaves scrawled at each of his crime scenes in the shared fictional town of Millhaven, Illinois. Koko (1988), which won the World Fantasy Award, follows four Vietnam veterans reunited by the discovery that a wartime atrocity they buried may be resurfacing as a string of murders across Asia, each signed with the name "Koko." Mystery (1990) shifts focus to Tom Pasmore, a young boy who…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671044633