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The Houdini Specter

by Daniel Stashower · 2001

Harry Houdini series

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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.

Genre
mysteryhistorical fictioncrimehistorical mystery
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 262 pages

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