Brighton Mysteries: Smoke and Mirrors: A Mystery (Paperback)

from nbmars

This is the second book in a mystery series featuring Detective Edgar Stephens by Elly Griffiths, who also writes the Ruth Galloway mystery series, one of my favorites. This series is set in post-World War II England. Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens of the Brighton police previously served in ...

from Carlathelibrarian

This is the second in the DI Edgar Stephens and Magician Max Mephisto series. They have been friends since their stint in Norway as The Magic Men in WW2. As a child I read all the fairytales and never realized how dark and creepy they really were. This is a dark and creepy story that centres arou...

from cburnett5

Smoke and Mirrors was a very entertaining read. I am a huge fan of Elly Griffiths' other series, the Ruth Galloway mysteries, and was really excited to read this one. I did not read the first in the series yet though I have it on my bookshelf. I had no trouble picking up the storyline with Smoke ...

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The second book in Elly Griffiths series featuring DI Stephens, and actor/magician Max Mephisto is set in Brighton, about a year after the events in the Zig Zag Girl, during the winter of 1951. When two young children go missing, and are later found dead in a snow bank surrounded by sweets, DI Ed...

from Eyejaybee

While the principal protagonist of this novel is Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens, he is eclipsed in my recollection by his friend, Max Mephisto, the famous conjurer, who finds himself in the role of Abanazar in the production of Aladdin being staged on the Brighton Pier. Max Mephisto is consta...