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    Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder

    Part of Harry Houdini

    Author Daniel Stashower
    Paperback
    $12.95 US
    Titan | Titan Books
    5.1"W x 7.9"H x 0.63"D   | 8 oz | 32 per carton
    On sale Feb 07, 2012 | 256 Pages | 9780857682925
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    The world’s most famous escape artist must uncover why his master’s illusion went horribly wrong in this “charming” historical mystery series from an Edgar Award–winning author (New York Times)
     
    In turn-of-the-century New York City, struggling young performer Harry Houdini is working for the renowned magician Kellar. One night his master’s astonishing illusion the Floating Lady goes horribly wrong, with Kellar’s levitating assistant apparently plunging to her death. Houdini, along with his wife Bess and brother Dash, must solve the mystery and figure out how the young lady died from drowning rather than a fatal fall.
    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
    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 Seventh Bullet.
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    The world’s most famous escape artist must uncover why his master’s illusion went horribly wrong in this “charming” historical mystery series from an Edgar Award–winning author (New York Times)
     
    In turn-of-the-century New York City, struggling young performer Harry Houdini is working for the renowned magician Kellar. One night his master’s astonishing illusion the Floating Lady goes horribly wrong, with Kellar’s levitating assistant apparently plunging to her death. Houdini, along with his wife Bess and brother Dash, must solve the mystery and figure out how the young lady died from drowning rather than a fatal fall.

    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

    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 Seventh Bullet.
    Daniel Stashower View titles by Daniel Stashower

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