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The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) · Book 7

The Great Deceiver

by Elly Griffiths

Published
24 October 2023
Pages
344
ISBN-13
9781529409918
Type
novel

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About this book

The Great Deceiver followed The Midnight Hour in 2023, closing out The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) as its most recent installment -- the seventh and last chapter in Edgar and Max's partnership, born of their wartime service in the Magic Men.

Its place in The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto)

The Great Deceiver is book 7 in the The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) series. It follows 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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