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The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) · Book 6

The Midnight Hour

by Elly Griffiths

Published
1 January 2021
Pages
360
ISBN-13
9781787477582
Type
novel

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About this book

As the sixth book in The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto), The Midnight Hour follows Now You See Them, moving the series further into the 1960s as post-war Brighton's variety theatre world keeps fading around Edgar and Max.

Its place in The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto)

The Midnight Hour is book 6 in the The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) series. It follows Now You See Them. It is followed by The Great Deceiver. 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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