Death from a Top Hat Rawson ClaytonPaperback
Death from a Top Hat Rawson ClaytonPaperback 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…
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Death from a Top Hat Rawson ClaytonPaperback
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. 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 cops call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician's mind.
But in the end it will take his logical skills, and not his magical ones, to apprehend the killer.Reprinted for the first time in over twenty years, Death from a Top Hat is an ingeniously-plotted puzzle set in the world of New York stage magic, which was at its pinnacle in the early twentieth century. 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. In 1981, the novel was selected as one of the top ten locked room mysteries of all time by a panel of mystery-world luminaries that included Julian Symons, Edward D.
Hoch, Ellery Queen's co-creator Frederic Dannay, and Otto Penzler.
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