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The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) · Book 5

Now You See Them

by Elly Griffiths

Published
1 January 2019
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9781786487346
Type
novel

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About this book

The fifth installment of The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto), Now You See Them runs 368 pages and appeared in 2019, continuing Edgar and Max's friendship and Edgar's relationship with policewoman Emma Holmes across the series' 1950s Brighton setting.

Its place in The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto)

Now You See Them is book 5 in the The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) series. It follows The Vanishing Box. It is followed by The Midnight Hour. See the full The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) reading order.

Elly Griffiths's third detective series pairs DI Edgar Stephens with Max Mephisto, a stage magician, against the fading glamour of post-war Brighton. The two men served together during the Second World War in the Magic Men, a real-inspired shadowy military unit that used stage-magic deception techniques for wartime camouflage and misdirection — a shared history that gives their unlikely partnership its emotional foundation. The Zig Zag Girl (2014) opens with a murder staged to mimic one of Max's own magic tricks…

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