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Fall headfirst into July’s hottest stories—danger, desire, and happily-ever-afters await.

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The Man in Black by Elly Griffiths

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Also by Elly Griffiths:

The Frozen People, July 2025
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The Last Word, January 2025
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The Man in Black, October 2024
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The Last Remains, March 2024
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Bleeding Heart Yard, November 2023
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Marple, September 2023
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The Last Remains, May 2023
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The Locked Room, April 2023
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The Locked Room, April 2023
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Bleeding Heart Yard, November 2022
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Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, September 2022
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The Locked Room, July 2022
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The Night Hawks, June 2022
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The Postscript Murders, April 2022
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The Blood Card, September 2017
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Smoke and Mirrors, October 2016
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The House at Sea\'s End, January 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

The Man in Black
Elly Griffiths

Mariner Books
October 2024
On Sale: October 15, 2024
Featuring: Elly Griffiths
320 pages
ISBN: 0063289334
EAN: 9780063289338
Kindle: B0CSXDP1Z9
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Historical | Novella / Short Story

From the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, an eclectic, thrilling collection of short stories, featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.

Elly Griffiths has always written short stories to experiment with different voices and genres as well as to explore what some of her fictional creations such as Ruth Galloway, Harbinder Kaur, and Max Mephisto might have done outside of the novels. The Man in Black gathers these bite-sized tales all together in one splendid volume.

There are ghost stories, cozy mysteries, tales of psychological suspense, and poignant vignettes of love and loss.

In the title story, Ruth Galloway crosses paths with a mysterious man in a bookstore, setting in motion a rescue mission that hinges on the legends and lore of Norfolk.

Looking into the past, a young magician in 1920s Leeds wonders just what happened to his missing landlady in “Max Mephisto and the Disappearing Act.”

In “Justice Jones and the Etherphone,” a witty girl detective investigates the dire prediction of a fortune teller in dreary postwar London.

A flashback in time reveals Harbinder Kaur as a Detective Sergeant surviving her first day on the job at Shoreham DCI.

To celebrate the holidays, Ruth gets her very first Christmas tree, and her beloved cat narrates his own seasonal story in “Flint’s Fireside Tale.”

And readers can armchair travel with stories set on the Amalfi Coast, in Capri, and in Egypt as Ruth and DCI Nelson experience their very own version of Death on the Nile.

The Man in Black illustrates the breadth and variety of Elly Griffiths’s talent for blood-chilling, page-turning stories all with her trademark humor and heart. 

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