The House at Devil's Neck

(Hardback)

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LIKE LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES YOU'LL LOVE TOM MEAD'S JOSEPH SPECTOR SERIES!

Readers on Tom Mead:

'Entertaining and fiendishly clever' Joy Ellis
'Stunning... Joseph Spector will put a spell on you' Barbara Nadel
'Ingenious' Victoria Dowd
'What more could any fan of classic crime wish for' Martin Edwards

This gripping locked-room mystery sees Joseph Spector investigate murderous machinations at a haunted manor house in his most sinister case yet.

A former First World War field hospital, the spooky old mansion at Devil's Neck attracts spirit-seekers from far and wide.

Illusionist-turned-sleuth Joseph Spector knows the house of old. When stories spread of a phantom soldier making mischief, he joins a party of visitors in search of the truth.

But the house, located on a lonely causeway, is soon cut off by floods. Before long, the stranded visitors are being killed off one by one. The only possible culprit The ghostly soldier...

With old ally Inspector Flint working on a complex case that has links to Spector's investigation, the two men must connect the dots before Devil's Neck claims another victim... Spector himself.

Read all the perfectly puzzling Spector Locked-Room Mysteries from Head of Zeus:

#1 Death and the Conjuror
#2 The Murder Wheel
#3 Cabaret Macabre
#4 The House at Devil's Neck

Author Bio

Tom Mead is an aficionado of Golden Age crime fiction. His short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Lighthouse, as well as Best Crime Stories of the Year (ed. Lee Child). Death and the Conjuror, his debut novel, featuring illusionist turned sleuth Joseph Spector, was highly acclaimed by the UK and US press and was one of Publishers Weekly's Mysteries of the Year. He lives in Derbyshire, England.

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