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Great Merlini SSC The Complete Stories of the Magician Detective

โœ Scribed by Clayton Rawson

Book ID
115211436
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
506 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781453256824

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โœฆ Synopsis

Stories from the Edgar Award -winning author of the famous locked-room mystery, Death of a Top Hat , "a cornerstone of detective fiction" (The New York Times****).

The Great Merlini waits impatiently at the door of the Hotel Astor. Inspector Church is late for his meeting with the famed magician, with whom he consults when homicide cases venture outside the realm of the possible. A ventriloquist has attempted suicide in the wake of his wife's mysterious strangulation. Among the suspects are a snake charmer, a nine-foot giant, a tattooed man, and a gaggle of crap players--and this is one of Merlini's simple cases. He will pick out the killer, with no more effort than he might a rabbit in a top hat.

In these twelve short stories, all originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine , cofounder of Mystery Writers of America and Special Edgar Award winner Clayton Rawson's greatest detective confronts...

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