Tom Mead Books in Order

A psychiatrist is murdered inside his locked study in 1930s London, baffling Scotland Yard. Retired magician Joseph Spector joins the investigation, where secretive suspects, an impossible theft, and another seemingly inexplicable death turn deduction into a race against further killings.

A lawyer defending a woman accused of killing her husband on a Ferris wheel becomes implicated in further impossible crimes. Magician Joseph Spector investigates theatrical illusions, a mysteriously appearing corpse, and a locked-room shooting to uncover the pattern behind them.

Threats against a judge and fears for a sanatorium patient bring Joseph Spector and Inspector Flint to the same snowbound country estate. A body on a frozen pond and an impossible shooting demand explanations hidden beneath longstanding grievances.

These mystery stories center on impossible crimes, with stage magician Joseph Spector investigating most of the puzzles. The collection brings together earlier tales and previously unpublished cases, inviting readers to disentangle apparent impossibilities through observation and deduction.

Joseph Spector joins visitors at an allegedly haunted former hospital, where a séance and a storm leave them trapped with a killer. Meanwhile, Inspector Flint investigates a London death whose connection to an older case leads toward the island.