About this title: The year is 1923 and a viciously ingenious maniac is leaving a trailof corpses across New York City. It isn't ling before ace crime reporter Damon Runyan begins to see a strange pattern emerging from these apparently random slayings -each murder uncannily recreates the gruesome denouement of an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Arthur Conan doyle, in New York on a lecture tour, cannot resist the challenge of solving the murders, assisted by his friend and fellow debunker of fake spiritualists Harry Houdini. But unknown to Conan Doyle, Houdini has fallen under the spell of a mysterious and ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper
ISBN-13:9780312956950ISBN:0312956959
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper
ISBN-13:9780312956950ISBN:0312956959
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780871135797ISBN:0871135795
Description: New in new dust jacket. little discolor--excellant condition--542. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 289 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780312956950ISBN:0312956959
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Mystery General Synopsis: 308 pages. The Jazz Age heralds the dawn of swinging music, sexy flappers, bathtub gin and gruesome murder...Though vaudeville is dying, Houdini stil... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780871135797ISBN:0871135795
Description: A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780871135797ISBN:0871135795
Description: A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780312956950ISBN:0312956959
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. may have price &/or mark on cover. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
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