The zig zag girl
Call Number
- MYSTERY GRIF (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Physical Description
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary
A band of magicians who served together in World War II track a killer who's performing their deadly tricks. Brighton, 1950. The body of a girl is found cut into three pieces. Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old war friend of Edgar's. They served together in a shadowy unit called the Magic Men, a special ops troop that used stage tricks to confound the enemy. Max is on the traveling show circuit, touring seaside towns with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers, and dancing girls. He's reluctant to leave this world to help Edgar investigate.