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๐Author: Elly Griffiths, paperback.
๐On the eve of the Queenโs coronation, DI Stephens and Max Mephisto uncover an anarchist plot and a ticking bomb โ from the author ofย The Stranger Diaries and the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries.
โMixes cosiness and sharpness in a way that recalls the best of Agatha Christieโย Sunday Expressย (onย Smoke and Mirrors)
Elizabeth IIโs coronation is looming, but the murder of their wartime commander, Colonel Cartwright, spoils the happy mood for DI Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto. A playbill featuring another deceased comrade is found in Colonel Cartwrightโs possession, and a playing card, the ace of hearts: the blood card. The wartime connection and the suggestion of magic are for Stephens and Mephisto to be summoned to the case.
Edgarโs ongoing investigation into the death of Brighton fortune-teller Madame Zabini is put on hold. Max is busy rehearsing for a spectacular Coronation Day variety show โ and his television debut โ so itโs Edgar who is sent to New York, a land of plenty worlds away from still-rationed England. Heโs on the trail of a small-town mesmerist who may provide the key, but someone silences him first. Itโs Edgarโs colleague, DS Emma Holmes, who finds the clue, buried in the files of the Zabini case, that leads them to an anarchist group intent on providing an explosive finale to Coronation Day.
Now itโs up to Edgar, Max and Emma to foil the plot, and find out who it is whoโs been dealing the cards . .
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