Mystery

Peter Straub

Dec 2010 · Blue rose trilogy Book 2 · Sold by Anchor

About this eBook

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story comes “a dark, labyrinthian tale of murder and family relationships” (Chicago Sun-Times), starring an unlikely duo who must confront demons from the past and dark secrets that still haunt the present. 

Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t.  Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death.  When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to find the killer.

Ratings and reviews

As addictive as the other two books in the trilogy, Koko and The Throat, Mystery will lead you inexorably through the twin mazes of wealth and power and the twisting inner courtyards of the island's former slave quarters with equal ease - dignity and human degeneracy are dispersed without pattern until father finds son and old questions are answered by the arrival of new ones. The trilogy takes several central characters and tells their stories differently in such a way that they are revealed and shrouded

The best mystery I have ever read. If you name a book Mystery it better be great and have everything a mystery must have. I read this book in the 80's and it is still one of the best book I have ever read (and I have read hundreds if not more).

It was a very good book. Good story.

About the author

PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. In the Night Room and Lost Boy, Lost Girl are winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as is his collection 5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume American Fantastic Tale from the Library of America. He died in 2022.