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The Zig Zag Girl"Captivating." Wall Street Journal "An absorbing read, the debut of another great series." San Jose Mercury News "A labyrinthine plot, a splendid reveal, and superb evocation of the wafer thin veneer of glamour at the bottom end of showbusiness . . . Thoroughly enjoyable." Guardian Brighton, 1950. A girl is found cut in three, and Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick the Zig Zag Girl. The
"Captivating." --Wall Street Journal "An absorbing read, the debut of another great series." --San Jose Mercury News "A labyrinthine plot, a splendid reveal, and superb evocation of the wafer-thin veneer of glamour at the bottom end of showbusiness . . . Thoroughly enjoyable." --GuardianBrighton, 1950. A girl is found cut in three, and 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, served with Edgar in a special ops troop called the Magic Men that used stage illusions to confound the enemy. Max still performs, touring with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers, and dancing girls. When Edgar asks for his help with the case, Max tells him to identify the victim quickly; it takes a special sidekick to do the Zig Zag Girl--words that haunt Max when he learns the dead girl is Ethel, one of his best assistants to date. Another death, another magic trick, and still no killer. But when Edgar receives a letter warning of another "trick" on the way--the Wolf Trap--he knows the Magic Men are in the killer's sights. "Enormously engaging . . . Griffiths's plot is satisfyingly serpentine." --Daily Mail "Readers will finish looking forward to the next trick up Griffiths's] sleeve." --Mystery Scene Elly Griffiths is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Magic Men mystery series. She is the recipient of the Mary Higgins Clark Award and her work has been praised as "gripping" (Louise Penny), "highly atmospheric" (New York Times Book Review), and "must-reads for fans of crime fiction" (Associated Press).
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/06/2016
ISBN: 9780544811874
Pages: 325
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
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Baki a must buy for any marga collector enthusiast
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this new English physical release of Baki is amazing the quality of the book feels like a lot of care was put into it.
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★★★★★ 5
Great debut from Kodama Tales
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Quality wise the book is top notch. The paper is thick with basically zero bleed through, and on top of that the color pages are included as well. As this is my first time reading Baki I can't give a comment on the wider story, but what's contained in this volume is some solid dumb fun.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2025
★★★★★ 5
"She was dead when I got there," Mom casually said
Format: Paperback
I've faithfully followed Living the Line's Smudge manga releases up to this. Actually I had this one preordered for ages but Amazon never shipped it to me and I only noticed it was in stock by chance. I had to cancel and reorder it. What the heck, Amazon?
Anyhow, it's definitely a horror story but also a species of superhero story, or at least a person-with-superpowers story, without the encumbrances of lore, heavy character- or world-building, a continuing narrative in a shared universe, or anything else. There's really nothing you could call a plot. Stripped down and even rough as it is, it's utterly engrossing, surreal reading for me.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Awesome graphic
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This graphic tale is engaging, thought providing. Leads you into taking another look into the events of the past as you grew up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Cool blend of a crazy bend of history, horror, and secret organizations of control.
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