Author talk: Benjamin Stevenson

Next date: Thursday, 07 November 2024 | 11:00 AM

Copies of the book will be for sale on the day.

Bookings are essential. 

About the author

Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and a best-selling author of books such as Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect and Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone.

Benjamin will sit down at the library for a conversation about his new book Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret.

About the book

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.

THE MAGICIAN
THE ASSISTANT
THE EXECUTIVE
THE HYPNOTIST
THE TWIN
THE COUNSELLOR
THE STAGEHAND

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.

If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it.

After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn’t it?

Books by the author

 

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Location

Bathurst Library, 70-78 Keppel Street, 2795, View Map