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The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) · Book 4

The Vanishing Box

by Elly Griffiths

Published
1 January 2017
Pages
1
ISBN-13
9781094134956
Type
novel

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About this book

The Vanishing Box, the fourth book in The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto), precedes Now You See Them. Like the rest of the series, it draws its clues from the world of magicians, ventriloquists and impresarios populating Brighton's declining entertainment scene.

Its place in The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto)

The Vanishing Box is book 4 in the The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto) series. It follows The Blood Card. It is followed by Now You See Them. 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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