Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder

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$12.95 US
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On sale Feb 07, 2012 | 256 Pages | 9780857682925
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 conventionsHolmes’s uncanny powers of observation and of disguise, the scenes and customs of Victorian lifemakes 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 DoyleElephants in the DistanceThe Beautiful Cigar GirlThe 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.

Reviews

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 conventionsHolmes’s uncanny powers of observation and of disguise, the scenes and customs of Victorian lifemakes 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 DoyleElephants in the DistanceThe Beautiful Cigar GirlThe Ghosts of Baker Street, and the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Seventh Bullet.