The Headless Lady

Download or read book The Headless Lady written by Clayton Rawson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA circus owner’s murder produces a roster of bizarre suspects /divDIV/divDIVSummer heat is choking New York, and the Great Merlini—conjurer, sleuth, and godson of P. T. Barnum—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’s shop, begging to purchase his most popular illusion: the headless lady. When the magician refuses to sell his last copy, she steals it./divDIV /divDIVShe 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’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