Magic Men Mysteries #2
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 2016
On Sale: October 18, 2016
Featuring: DI Edgar Stephens; Max Mephisto
352 pages ISBN: 054452795X EAN: 9780544527959 Kindle: B01912P01Q Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
It’s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz
about a local production of Aladdin, starring the
marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on
DI Edgar Stephens. He’s investigating the murder of two
children, Annie and Mark, who were strangled to death in
the woods, abandoned alongside a trail of candy—a
horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel.
Edgar has plenty of leads to investigate. Annie, a
surprisingly dark child, used to write gruesome plays
based on the Grimms' fairy tales. Does the key to the
case lie in her unfinished final script? Or does the
macabre staging of Annie and Mark’s deaths point to the
theater and the capricious cast of characters performing
in Aladdin? Once again Edgar enlists Max's help in
penetrating the shadowy world of the theater. But is this
all just classic misdirection?
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