TY - BOOK AU - Stevenson,Benjamin TI - Everyone this Christmas has a secret: a festive mystery T2 - Ernest Cunningman mysteries SN - 9780063412866 PY - 2024///] CY - New York PB - Mariner Books KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Fiction KW - Divorced women KW - Novelists KW - Magicians KW - Magic shows KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Authorship KW - Christmas stories KW - Blue Mountains (N.S.W.) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Christmas fiction N1 - Series information from publisher's website N2 - "My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong. So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection. ... My clues are even more abstract: A suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. And an advent calendar. Because, you know, it's Christmas"-- ER -