The Great Harry Houdini is still struggling to make a name for himself in turn-of-the-century New York. He sees an opportunity for glory in exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig - if only he can work out how the medium managed to conjure a "spirit" while tied to a chair by Houdini himself or how the apparition was able to stab an audience member to death and then disappear.
The Great Harry Houdini is still struggling to make a name for himself in turn-of-the-century New York. He sees an opportunity for glory in exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig - if only he can work out how the medium managed to conjure a "spirit" while tied to a chair by Houdini himself or how the apparition was able to stab an audience member to death and then disappear.
Daniel Stashower is a novelist and magician. His works include: Elephants in the Distance, The Beautiful Cigar Girl, The Ghosts of Baker Street, an anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories, plus the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Ectoplasmic Man.
"atmospheric, suspenseful... Mr. Strashower... vividly recreates the atmosphere of the period" (New York Times on The Beautiful Cigar Girl)"
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