The Magic Bottle Laurent Binet Harvill Secker FFH|NHDL|FFD|FXP|FXR|FYD|FV Hardback 2025

The Magic Bottle Laurent Binet Harvill Secker FFH|NHDL|FFD|FXP|FXR|FYD|FV Hardback 2025The Magic Bottle originally published in 1946 is the only book for children by much loved Golden Age crime writer Cyril Hare. When Philip and his sister Mary opened the oddly shaped bottle and found that they had released a Djinn, Philip, who knew his Arabian Nights, feared the worst. But the Djinn was an unexpected kind of Djinn, and his release was the start of some very unexpected adventures 'His style is easy and fluent, and his books are

Just a cleaner with a foreign accent that no one quite has time to place

the last thing she's in the mood for is a celebration

dinner party segues into a murder mystery game created by the hostess

And when these are followed by an apparent suicide

and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo

the fans must evade the police

and in 'You Like it Darker'

And not in a good way

Or is it already too late

he realizes that the three cases may be related after all

he soon discovers that the countryside isn't quite so dull as he'd anticipated

and he has no idea how far they will go to make sure the town's secrets stay buried