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New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness.Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland's Lake Erie: the lower half of a fe...

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness...

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It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." -Harlan CobenDaniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot, " an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War in THE HOUR OF PERIL.In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and fully-matured" thre...

Featuring Harry Houdini, the most famous escape artist in the world this series re-imagines him early on in his career. To be marketed and promoted alongside their successful "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" series, it's an evocative recreation of the hustle and bustle of New York in the 1890s.

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Struggling young performer Harry Houdini is working for the renowned Kellar "Dean of American Magicians" in turn-of the-century New York. When his master's astonishing Floating Lady illusion goes horribly wrong, Houdini, along with his wife Bess and brother Dash, must solve the deadly conundrum and figure out how the young lady died from drowning rather than a fatal fall... Another thrilling title in the "Harry Houdini Mysteries" series from...

The author of Edgar winner "Teller of Tales" recounts the story of Manhattan tobacco store clerk Mary Rogers, whose murder in 1841 fueled a public outcry. Edgar Allan Poe began a fictional magazine serial featuring his famous detective Dupin speculating on the murder of the working-class girl, thus beginning the modern detective story.

Paul Galliard is a magician by training and heredity: his father died performing the Bullet Catch, an infamous trick that over the centuries has claimed the lives of more than a dozen magicians. A pragmatist, Paul confines his conjuring to commercials, he shows up often on TV screens, demonstrating the magical power of some brand of household cleanser. Then he gets a call. A producer wants to do a show highlighting his father's old cronies, th...

When Harry Houdini is framed and jailed for espionage, Sherlock Holmes vows to clear his name, with the two joining forces to take on blackmailers who have targeted the Prince of Wales. It's a case that requires all of their skills -- both mental and physical. Can the daring duo solve what people are calling "The Crime of the Century"? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. ...

New York City. 1897. Young Harry Houdini is struggling to make it in the brutal entertainment business, when detectives call on him to attempt the most amazing feat of his fledgling career: solve the mystery of a toy tycoon murdered in his posh Fifth Avenue mansion. It's a challenge which Harry -- never at a loss for self-confidence -- is more than willing to accept. The first in a series of "Harry Houdini Mysteries" from award-winning autho...

Now in paperback, the second treasury of never-before-published Sherlockian tales by Anne Perry and ten other outstanding contemporary mystery writers Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy--in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in...