The Headless Lady

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453256855

<DIV><b>A circus owner&rsquo;s murder produces a roster of bizarre suspects<BR><BR></b></div><DIV></div><DIV>Summer heat is choking New York, and the Great Merlini&mdash;conjurer, sleuth, and godson of P. T. Barnum&mdash;offers his friend Ross Harte a chance to get out of town. Before they can depart for the annual convention of the Society of American Magicians, a nervous woman enters Merlini&rsquo;s shop, begging to purchase his most popular illusion: the headless lady. When the magician refuses to sell his last copy, she steals it.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>She is the daughter of Major Hannum, a recently deceased circus magnate whose death may not have been an accident. Somewhere among the carnies, barkers, and freaks lurks a killer, and only Merlini can save the carnival from further bloodshed. The killer&rsquo;s plot is as sly as a funhouse mirror, but no detective is more at home in a world where nothing is what it seems.</div>