Death from a top hat
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New York, NY : Penzler Publishers, [2018].
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9781613161012, 1613161018, 9781613161098
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult FictionFIC Rawson, ClaytonOn Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - AdultMYSTERY RAWSON, C.On Shelf
Franklin Park Library District - Adult FictionFIC RAWSON, CLAOn Shelf
Homewood Public Library District - StacksFIC RAWSON, C.On Shelf
La Grange Public Library - StacksMYSTERY RAWSON, CLAYTONOn Shelf
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Published
New York, NY : Penzler Publishers, [2018].
Format
Book
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iv, 293 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781613161012, 1613161018, 9781613161098

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"American Mystery Classics."
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Original copyright date, 1938.
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"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"--,Amazon.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Rawson, C. (2018). Death from a top hat . Penzler Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rawson, Clayton, 1906-1971. 2018. Death From a Top Hat. Penzler Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rawson, Clayton, 1906-1971. Death From a Top Hat Penzler Publishers, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Rawson, Clayton. Death From a Top Hat Penzler Publishers, 2018.

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