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    Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Houdini Specter

    Part of Harry Houdini

    Author Daniel Stashower
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    Titan | Titan Books
    On sale Jun 12, 2012 | 256 Pages | 9780857686213
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    Will Harry Houdini’s penchant for exposing the trickery of mediums get him into a deeper mystery than he can handle?

    Still struggling to make a name for himself in turn-of-the-century New York, Harry Houdini sees an opportunity for glory in exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig. But to do so, he must work out how the medium managed to conjure a “spirit” while tied to a chair by Houdini himself—and how the apparition was able to stab an audience member to death and then disappear.

    The Houdini Specter is the third thrilling adventure in a Sherlock Holmes-inspired series starring the legendary magician.
    Daniel Stashower is a novelist and magician. His works include: the Edgar Award-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, Elephants in the Distance, The Beautiful Cigar Girl, The Ghosts of Baker Street, and the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Ectoplasmic Man.
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    PRAISE FOR DANIEL STASHOWER:

    “This is charming . . . it might have amused Conan Doyle.”
    —The New York Times

    “In his first mystery, Stashower paired Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes to marvelous effect.”
    —Chicago Tribune

    “Stashower’s clever adaptation of the Conan Doyle conventions—Holmes’s uncanny powers of observation and of disguise, the scenes and customs of Victorian life—makes it fun to read.”
    —Publishers Weekly

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    Will Harry Houdini’s penchant for exposing the trickery of mediums get him into a deeper mystery than he can handle?

    Still struggling to make a name for himself in turn-of-the-century New York, Harry Houdini sees an opportunity for glory in exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig. But to do so, he must work out how the medium managed to conjure a “spirit” while tied to a chair by Houdini himself—and how the apparition was able to stab an audience member to death and then disappear.

    The Houdini Specter is the third thrilling adventure in a Sherlock Holmes-inspired series starring the legendary magician.

    Author

    Daniel Stashower is a novelist and magician. His works include: the Edgar Award-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, Elephants in the Distance, The Beautiful Cigar Girl, The Ghosts of Baker Street, and the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Ectoplasmic Man.
    Daniel Stashower View titles by Daniel Stashower

    Praise

    PRAISE FOR DANIEL STASHOWER:

    “This is charming . . . it might have amused Conan Doyle.”
    —The New York Times

    “In his first mystery, Stashower paired Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes to marvelous effect.”
    —Chicago Tribune

    “Stashower’s clever adaptation of the Conan Doyle conventions—Holmes’s uncanny powers of observation and of disguise, the scenes and customs of Victorian life—makes it fun to read.”
    —Publishers Weekly

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