Description:
Sleuthing stage magician Joseph Spector (Death and the Conjuror) returns to investigate a baffling series of impossible crimes.
"Even readers who live to match wits with canny authors and detectives are likely to be outwitted by this one."--Kirkus
Brief description: Tom Mead is a UK mystery writer and aficionado of Golden Age crime fiction. His novels in the award-winning Joseph Spector Locked-Room Mystery series include Death and the Conjuror, The Murder Wheel, Cabaret Macabre, The House at Devil's Neck, and So Speak the Dead. He has also published a collection of impossible crime short stories, The Indian Rope Trick (and Other Violent Entertainments), and co-edited (with Gigi Pandian) an anthology, All the Crime in the World: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Puzzles from Across the Globe. His works have been translated into fifteen languages (and counting) and named books of the year by The Guardian, The Telegraph, Publishers Weekly, CrimeFictionLover, and CrimeReads. Death and the Conjuror is currently in development for screen adaptation.
Review Quotes: "Mead plays scrupulously fair with his readers . . . Lovers of John Dickson Carr's puzzle mysteries will hope Mead has many more Spector tales up his sleeve."-- "Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW"