The House at Devil's Neck

LIKE LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES? YOU'LL LOVE TOM MEAD'S JOSEPH SPECTOR SERIES!

This gripping locked-room mystery sees Joseph Spector investigate his most sinister case yet: murderous machinations at a haunted manor house.

A former First World War field hospital, the spooky old mansion at Devil's Neck attracts spirit-seekers from far and wide.

Illusionist-turned-sleuth Joseph Spector knows the house of old. With stories spreading of a phantom soldier making mischief, he joins a party of visitors in search of the truth.

But the house, located on a lonely causeway, is quickly cut off by floods. The stranded visitors are soon being killed off one by one.

With old ally Inspector Flint working on a complex case that has links to Spector's investigation, the two men must connect the dots before Devil's Neck claims Spector himself as its next victim.

Readers on Tom Mead:

'Entertaining and fiendishly clever' Joy Ellis
'A master of the locked-room mystery' Barbara Nadel
'Ingenious' Victoria Dowd
'What more could any fan of classic crime wish for?' Martin Edwards

Read all the perfectly puzzling Spector Locked-Room Mysteries from Head of Zeus:

#1 Death and the Conjuror
#2 The Murder Wheel
#3 Cabaret Macabre
#4 The House at Devil's Neck

About the author

Tom Mead is an aficionado of Golden Age crime fiction. His short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Lighthouse, as well as Best Crime Stories of the Year (ed. Lee Child). Death and the Conjuror, his debut novel, featuring illusionist turned sleuth Joseph Spector, was highly acclaimed by the UK and US press and was one of Publishers Weekly's Mysteries of the Year. He lives in Derbyshire, England.

Follow Tom at tommeadauthor.com, @TomMeadAuthor and facebook.com/tommeadauthor

Product details

• Authors: Mead Tom
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.06.2026
• EAN: 9781837932641
• ISBN: 978-1-83793-264-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: A Spector Locked-Room Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Ghost, PERFORMING ARTS / General, Classic crime, Classic horror & ghost stories, Historical crime and mysteries, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Magic, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Conjuring & Magic, Conjuring and magic, Classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction