The October Boys - Adam Millard childrens chapter books Playing Tricks

Playing Tricks

Ira Levin’s Death Trap

his whole life behind in Maryland

she agrees to hunt down a killer who has murdered children across the Empire

bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders

The October Boys - Adam Millard childrens chapter books Playing TricksHALLOWEEN, 1988 A gang of twelve year old boys are trick or treating in London. Off in the distance, they hear the discordant chimes of an ice cream truck. It seems strange to hear on a cold autumnal night, but their thoughts of maximizing their candy haul soon dismissed its incongruous melody until they saw the rusting hulk idling in the shadows at the end of the street, its driver a faceless shadow. That was the night he took one of them. OCTOBER,