{"title":"Tom Mead","description":"Tom Mead is an author, translator, and aficionado of Golden Age crime fiction. He is the creator of the Joseph Spector locked room mystery series, which has been translated into ten languages (and counting), and is soon to be adapted for the screen. His debut novel, Death and the Conjuror, was nominated for the Capital Crime Award for Debut Novel of the Year and the Historical Writers' Association Debut Crown. It was also named one of the best mysteries of the year by The Guardian and Publishers Weekly. Its sequel, The Murder Wheel, was named one of the Best Traditional Mysteries of 2023 by Crimereads and the Daily Telegraph, as well as nominated for a Capital Crime Award and longlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award. His third novel, Cabaret Macabre was published in August 2024, along with a collection of short stories, The Indian Rope Trick and Other Violent Entertainments, in November 2024.","products":[{"product_id":"the-house-at-devils-neck-a-locked-room-mystery-hardcover","title":"The House at Devil's Neck: A Locked-Room Mystery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this latest locked room mystery from the author of \u003ci\u003eCabaret Macabre\u003c\/i\u003e, amateur sleuth Joseph Spector pits his knowledge of stage magic against the seemingly supernatural when a seance at an isolated old hospital turns deadly.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn apparent suicide in a London townhouse uncannily mirrors a similar incident from twenty-five years ago, prompting Scotland Yard's George Flint to delve deep into the past in search of the solution to a long-forgotten mystery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, Joseph Spector travels with a coach party through the rainy English countryside to visit an allegedly haunted house on a lonely island called Devil's Neck. The house, first built by a notorious alchemist and occultist, was later used as a field hospital in the First World War before falling into disrepair. The visitors hold a seance to conjure the spirit of a long-dead soldier. But when a storm floods the narrow causeway connecting Devil's Neck to the mainland, they find themselves stranded in the haunted house. Before long, the guests begin to die one by one, and it seems that the only possible culprit is the phantom soldier. Flint's and Spector's investigations are in fact closely linked, but it is only when the duo are reunited at the storm-lashed Devil's Neck that the truth is finally revealed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Mead once again creates a brilliant homage to John Dickson Carr and the Golden Age of mysteries with this intricately plotted puzzle.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102829809887,"sku":"9781613166505","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IRE94m0G5a9781613166505.webp?v=1781087434"},{"product_id":"the-indian-rope-trick-and-other-violent-entertainments-paperback","title":"The Indian Rope Trick And Other Violent Entertainments - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most enjoyable resurgences in mystery fiction has been the return of the locked room mystery, a crime scene where the victim is found in a secure space with no visible means of entrance or egress. Crippen \u0026amp; Landru has published some of the best locked rooms mysteries with collections by John Dickson Carr and Edward Hoch. While locked rooms have been around since Edgar Allan Poe, we are enjoying the new generation of talented mystery authors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of these clever new authors is Tom Mead, who pens the Joseph Spector series. In three novels and numerous short stories, Mead has shown that Golden Age mysteries are not gone-or forgotten. Spector appears in all but two of the stories in this collection. (One of non-Spector works is \"The Wager,\" the additional chapbook included with the clothbound signed and numbered edition.) Three of the remaining stories are new- never been published until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo read the brand-new stories here and match wits with Joseph Spector - and Tom Mead. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103737581791,"sku":"9781936363902","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/COuQ_1Znu89781936363902.webp?v=1781097534"},{"product_id":"cabaret-macabre-a-locked-room-mystery-hardcover","title":"Cabaret Macabre: A Locked-Room Mystery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eVictor Silvius has spent nine years as an inmate at The Grange, a private sanatorium, for the crime of attacking judge Sir Giles Drury. Now, the judge's wife, Lady Elspeth Drury, believes that Silvius is the one responsible for a series of threatening letters her husband has recently received. Eager to avoid the scandal that involving the local police would entail, Lady Elspeth seeks out retired stage magician Joseph Spector, whose discreet involvement in a case Sir Giles recently presided over greatly impressed her. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, Miss Caroline Silvius is disturbed after a recent visit to her brother Victor, convinced that he isn't safe at The Grange. Someone is trying to kill him and she suspects the judge, who has already made Silvius' life a living hell, may be behind it. Caroline hires Inspector George Flint of Scotland Yard to investigate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe two cases collide at Marchbanks, the Drury family seat of over four hundred years, where a series of unnerving events interrupt the peace and quiet of the snowy countryside. A body is discovered in the middle of a frozen pond without any means of getting there and a rifle is fired through a closed window, killing a man but not breaking the glass. Only Spector and his mastery of the art of misdirection can uncover the logical explanations for these impossible crimes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn atmospheric and puzzling traditional mystery that pays homage to the greatest writers of the genre's Golden Age, \u003ci\u003eCabaret Macabre\u003c\/i\u003e is the third book in Tom Mead's Joseph Spector series, hailed by the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a recipe for pure nostalgic pleasure.\" The books can be enjoyed in any order.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104497438943,"sku":"9781613165300","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/v3zENfmZr89781613165300.webp?v=1781108442"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tom-mead.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}