
2001
First Published
3.64
Average Rating
256
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While attempting to expose fraudulent medium Lucius Craig to New York's gullible society, master magician and escape artist Harry Houdini is faced with investigating a murder during one of Craig's fake seances, an event that Houdini himself attended. Original.
Avg Rating
3.64
Number of Ratings
180
5 STARS
15%
4 STARS
42%
3 STARS
36%
2 STARS
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Daniel Stashower
Author · 10 books
Daniel Stashower is the author of The Boy Genius and The Mogul as well as the Edgar Award-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. He is also the author of five mystery novels, the most recent of which is The Houdini Specter. Stashower is a recipient of The Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. A freelance journalist since 1986, Stashower's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveller and Connoisseur. He lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, D.C.