Elly Griffiths returns to the Brighton Mysteries with a murder investigation set against the world of stage magic.
When a magician's assistant is found dead in a Brighton boarding house, Max Mephisto is drawn into a case involving his old friend Ted English. Superintendent Edgar Stephens investigates while private detectives pursue another line of enquiry.
A further killing raises the stakes and pulls the performers into a dangerous plan. This is one novel in the Brighton Mysteries series, supplied as the paperback identified by ISBN 9781529409918.