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Death from a top hat / Clayton Rawson ; introduction by Otto Penzler.

Summary:

"Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD. The cops call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician's mind. In the most recent case, two occultists are discovered dead in locked rooms, one spread out on a pentagram, both appearing to have been murdered under similar circumstances. The list of suspects includes an escape artist, a professional medium, and a ventriloquist, so it's clear that the crimes took place in a realm that Merlini knows well. But in the end it will take his logical skills, and not his magical ones, to apprehend the killer." - provided by publisher

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781613161012
  • ISBN: 1613161018
  • ISBN: 9781613161098
  • ISBN: 1613161093
  • Physical Description: iv, 293 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Penzler Publishers, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Original copyright date, 1938.
Subject:
Magicians > Fiction.
Occultists > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Genre:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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