It Was A Dark And Stormy Book Club

Death and the Conjurorby Tom MeadShow NotesMysterious Press July 2022ON episode 242 and we are finally back after our holiday hiatus. We are fiinally reporting on the book Deathand the Conjuror: A Locked Room Mystery by Tom Mead. We assigned this book back in September buthave not been able to publish our findings until now.This a throwback locked room mystery set in 1936 London. Renowned psychiatrist Anselm Rees is founddead in his study.The cast of characters includes his adult daughter who he trained in the field, her fiancé, the housekeeper,Detective Flint, Spector the conjurer, along with a variety of interesting character walk-ons and Patients 1, 2and 3, all successful in the arts.There's an actress, a writer and a famed musician and the notes on their sessions reveal much. Having beena fan in my earliest years of mystery ready of the classic authors to produced these confections, this hadgreat characters and was well plotted. A bit of magic and old fashioned police work save the day.At the time of his