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The Murder of Harry Houdini
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $28.99
ISBN13: 9781662543128
Publisher: Little a
Published: Jan 1 2027
Pages: 395
Language: English
A broken WWI veteran joins Harry Houdini to expose fake mediums in 1920s New York in a spellbinding blend of historical mystery and psychological thriller, where magic is as consuming as madness.
For Everett Summers, a shell-shocked veteran of the Great War, New York is a disorienting city. Especially when he secures a job as an assistant in renowned magician Harry Houdini's Ghost Detective Agency. Raging against the new religion of spiritualism being heralded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Houdini aims to expose the charlatans bilking gullible fools who believe in the unbelievable. But since returning from the battlefield, Everett can't shake his own ghosts.
One of them is Ruby Zmolek, Doyle's goddaughter and a WWI nurse. To Everett, she's an unrecognizable stranger--one who has drawn him into a new romance.
As Everett joins Houdini--from investigating séance rooms to assisting the illusionist at a sold-out show--he discovers the search for the truth is a dangerous one. Because someone is out to kill Houdini before he finds it. But in a world where magic collides with madness, can Everett trust in anything he sees, loves, or believes?
(c) 2027 by Sara Herchenroether, all rights reserved.
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