Houdini in Fiction
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The Dime Museum Murders
by Daniel Stashower
In turn-of-the-century New York, young Harry Houdini is called upon to investigate the murder of a toy store baron. Houdini and Dash, escape brothers extraordinaire, …
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The Floating Lady Murder
by Daniel Stashower
When the beautiful young assistant of a world-famous magician is murdered on stage during a performance, a young Harry Houdini joins forces with his wife, …
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The Houdini Specter
by Daniel Stashower
In 1898, the Great Houdini's confidence is matched only by the indifference of the paying public. Now the master escape artist has the chance to …
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Death Defying Acts
by Greg Cox
When Houdini offers a large reward to anyone who can tell him his dead mother's final words, poor widow Mary McGregor and her daughter take …
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Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Misfits
by Dwight L. MacPherson
Young Harry Houdini runs away from home only to find himself a prisoner of Professor Murat's circus, where Harry and his new circus friends form …
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Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright
by Val Andrews
"Here's another Sherlock Holmes pastiche from the fertile pen of Val Andrews. Again two areas of mystery are linked: the exploits of Sherlock Holmes and …
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The Man from Beyond: A Novel
by Gabriel Brownstein
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade, defending the powers of the mysterious medium Margery. His good friend Harry Houdini …
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The Arcanum
by Thomas Wheeler
It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the world’s major cities, the killing has just …
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Houdini
by Jeff Phillips
"... a love story cloaked in adventure, locked in a maze of infinite twists. Inside its pages, Harry Houdini -- self-proclaimed world's greatest mystery man …
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Nevermore
by William Hjortsberg
While a killer recreates grisly scenes from the pages of Edgar Allen Poe in 1920s New York, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is haunted by Poe's …
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What Rough Beast
by H. R. Knight
Unlikely partners Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle must track down a horrific demon that has been unleashed upon London.
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Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow
Doctorow's big bestseller, made into a major movie and now repackaged, was first published in mass market paper by Bantam.
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The Tomorrow Connection
by T. Ernesto Bethancourt
Two musicians, finding themselves stranded in 1906, enlist Harry Houdini to help them find a gate to the future and travel across the country on …
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Houdini and the Seance Murders
by Christopher C. Farran
"Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, together in Italy, must join forces to solve a murder that happened before their own eyes during a seance. …
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The Sunken Treasure
by Marian J. A. Jackson
Houdini, bound in chains and submerged in water, could defy nature and hold his breath long enough to escape. Not so an ordinary seaman. The …
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The Road to Madness
by H.P. Lovecraft
One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected …
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Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini in the Adventure of the Pandora Plague
by Lee A. Matthias
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Other Worlds
by Barbara Michaels
Those present include Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor, and a writer who rivals them all with her sleuthing talent. These masters …
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Believe
by William Shatner
Two extraordinary men--Harry Houdini, a master of illusion who regarded his cr aft as the clever workings of the mind, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, …
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Escapade
by Walter Satterthwait
Hired to guard Harry Houdini from a rival magician's death threats, Phil Beaumont finds his hands full at a stately country home where Sir Arthur …
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Danger in the Dark
by Tom Lalicki
Harry Houdini – the world’s greatest escape artist – is in need of a new hat. That is what brings him to Bennett & Son, …
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Shots at Sea
by Tom Lalicki
On board the "Lusitania," young Nate Fuller hopes to sharpen his detective skills with some help from his mentor, Harry Houdini. Everything seems set for …
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Frame-up on the Bowery
by Tom Lalicki
Thirteen-year-old Nate, aided by his newly discovered cousin and the famous magician Harry Houdini, catches the Fifth Avenue Slasher, solves a string of burglaries, and …
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Houdini's Shadow
by Leo Brent Robillard
The reader first meets young Jake O'Sullivan, the protagonist, in 1912 Montreal, where his father is a washed-up boxer in hock to a small-time Jewish …
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Electric Flesh
by Christophe Claro
Convinced that he is the illegitimate grandchild of Harry Houdini, unemployed electric chair executioner Howard Hordinary is tormented by multiple perversities throughout his attempt to …
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What Rough Beast
by Harry R. Squires
It's 1903. Harry Houdini, the great escape artist, seeks the help of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, to discredit Maximillian Cairo, an …