Overview

"""Another great series."" -- San Jose Mercury News""A dazzlingly tricky mystery."" -- Kirkus Reviews ""A tremendous skein of red herrings, sharp and thorough police work, [and] mysterious connections."" -- Bookgasm It's Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about magician Max Mephisto's star turn in Aladdin. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He's investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, who were found in the woods alongside a trail of candy--a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of ""Hansel and Gretel."" Edgar has plenty of leads. Annie, a dark child, wrote gruesome plays based on the Grimms' fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her final script? Or does the macabre staging of the bodies point to the theater and the capricious cast of Aladdin? Edgar enlists Max's help in penetrating the shadowy world of the theater. But is this all just classic misdirection? ""Excellent . . . Evoking both the St. Mary Mead of Agatha Christie and the theater world of Ngaio Marsh."" -- Booklist"

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"""A dazzlingly tricky mystery, oddball characters, and an authentic feel for life in post-World War II England."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Excellent...Evoking both the St. Mary Mead of Agatha Christie and the theater world of Ngaio Marsh."" -- ""Booklist"" ""The lively beginning broadens out into an excellent whodunit, matched by the terrific down-at-heel atmosphere of postwar Brighton."" -- ""Sunday Times (London)"""

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Elly Griffiths, the author of three series of mysteries for adults and one series for children, has won the Mary Higgins Clark Award and the Crime Writers of America's Dagger in the Library Award. Daniel Philpott trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and, after success in the prestigious Carleton Hobbs Award for Radio Drama, has been prolific in BBC Radio and the Spoken Word industry. His theater work includes numerous productions on the London fringe. As an audiobook narrator, he has read George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and numerous others.

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