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Also by Elly Griffiths:

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

THE MAN IN BLACK
By: Elly Griffiths

And Other Stories

Mariner Books
November 2025
On Sale: November 11, 2025
320 pages
ISBN: 0063289342
EAN: 9780063289345
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Novella / Short Story | Anthology

LONGLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCATION 2025 DAGGER AWARDS

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.