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A Deadly Game of Magic
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SOLVED. YA Suspense. Teens in house trying to evade killer in darkness wearing all-black theater actors' clothing. Read late 1980s/early 1990s. Spoiler.
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Hello, first time poster, looking for a suspense novel from long ago, here is the plot summary and details: I read this book in the late 1980s or early 1990s. In Canada but likely published simultaneously in the U.S., likely American publisher. It was a suspense/thriller/mystery novel possibly for young adults. Plot: Dark and stormy night when several teenagers are driving home in a van during a rainstorm. The vehicle breaks down and the teens spot an old house up on a hill barely lit. They approach the house in the dark and manage to enter it. Once inside, they find it very dark, no power/lights. They come to the realization that they are not alone, there is a killer in the house that can see them and follow them, trapping them one by one. Suddenly the remaining teens realize that they can remove their outerwear leaving only their theater garments on, all black clothing including netted face mask and hoods, so the killer now cannot see them, and they can move freely as they become accustomed to the dark. In the end, one or a few either escape or catch the killer. **If anyone can determine this book and title, I would like to read it again! The author did a great job making it suspenseful and scary!----Joel
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I was looking for this same book a while back: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...It's A Deadly Game of Magic by Joan Lowery Nixon.
Amazing! Wow, thanks to you both so much! It was a memorable story that made quite an impression. And here I thought I'd never locate it again. I look forward to reading it again! How do we mark this question as solved now? Many thanks!! -- Joel
Meant thanks to you Kat! Appreciated👍
Happy to help! It's a weird book that really stuck in my mind, too. I remember taking it out of my elementary school library over and over as a kid.You can edit the header to say solved, and also move the post into one of the solved folders -- I think there's one for YA books, which is what this is. You need to be in the desktop version of the browser, though, it won't work in the app version or the mobile web version. There's a little edit button somewhere near the top of the post.
Or if you can't figure it out, a mod can help.
