DEATH FROM A TOP HAT: The First Great Merlini Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)

Rawson, Clayton

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: American Mystery Classics / Otto Penzler, N.Y., 2018

1613161018 / 9781613161012

Serie: Libro 1 de 4 - The Great Merlini Mysteries

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First printing, thus. (Originally pub in 1938). Cover by Andy Ross. Introduction by Otto Penzler. Light notations at title page by previous owner and minor underlining throughout. A detective steeped in the art of magic solves the mystifying murder of two occultists. 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. The cops call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician’s mind. 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 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. 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. 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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Título
DEATH FROM A TOP HAT: The First Great Merlini Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)
Autor
Rawson, Clayton
Editorial
American Mystery Classics / Otto Penzler, N.Y.
Año de publicación
2018
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Near Fine
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No Jacket
Tipo de libro
Book
Encuadernación
Pictorial Wrappers
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1613161018
ISBN 13
9781613161012
Ilustrador
Ross, Andy
Edición
First Printing.
Serie
Libro 1 de 4: The Great Merlini Mysteries
Catálogos de vendedores
Impossible Crime, Locked Room, Mystery and Crime, New York City, Paperback, PyB 1

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