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The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) · Book 3

The Blood Card

by Elly Griffiths

Published
1 January 2016
Pages
378
ISBN-13
9780544750302
Type
novel

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About this book

The Blood Card is the third book in The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto), published in 2016. It continues Edgar and Max's partnership, forged during their wartime service together in the real-inspired Magic Men unit.

Its place in The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto)

The Blood Card is book 3 in the The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) series. It follows Smoke and Mirrors. It is followed by The Vanishing Box. 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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