Footprints on the Ceiling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781613168691)

Vendor: Clayton Rawson
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Format: Hardcover
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Footprints on the Ceiling

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Footprints on the Ceiling

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Format: Hardcover
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A sleuthing magician investigates an allegedly haunted house on an island off Manhattan--and uncovers a murder.

"Wanted To Rent: Haunted House, preferably in rundown condition. Must be adequately supplied with interesting ghost."

Ross Harte knows that only the Great Merlini could be behind such a strange classified ad. A magician, salesman, and occasional sleuth, Merlini is producing radio investigations of paranormal activity, and he needs ghosts to put on-air. His first target is Skelton Island, an eerie speck of land just a few hundred feet off the coast of Manhattan, but seemingly out of another time.

On a late-night trip to the island, Merlini and Harte find the house perfectly rundown and well stocked with ghosts, including one fresh one. Linda Skelton, granddaughter of the famous Scourge of Wall Street, has been poisoned with cyanide. Unless Merlini works quickly, he and Ross will join her among the ranks of Skelton Island's famous spirits.

Reprinted for the first time this century, Footprints on the Ceiling is a brilliant puzzle mystery and the second of Clayton Rawson's novels featuring the Great Merlini. This edition features a new introduction by Tom Mead, author of the Joseph Spector Locked Room Mystery series.

Author: Clayton Rawson
ISBN-10: 1613168691
ISBN-13: 9781613168691
Publisher: American Mystery Classics
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2027
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.00d
By Clayton Rawson
By Clayton Rawson
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Clayton Rawson (1906-1971) was a novelist, editor, and magician. He is best known for creating the Great Merlini, an illusionist and amateur sleuth introduced in Death from a Top Hat (1938). Rawson followed the character through three more novels, concluding the series with No Coffin for the Corpse (1942). In 1941 and 1943 he published the short-story collections Death out of Thin Air and Death from Nowhere, starring Don Diavolo, an escape artist introduced in the Merlini series.

Tom Mead is an author, translator, and aficionado of Golden Age crime fiction. He is the creator of the Joseph Spector locked room mystery series, which has been translated into ten languages (and counting), and is soon to be adapted for the screen. His debut novel, Death and the Conjuror, was nominated for the Capital Crime Award for Debut Novel of the Year and the Historical Writers' Association Debut Crown. It was also named one of the best mysteries of the year by The Guardian and Publishers Weekly. Its sequel, The Murder Wheel, was named one of the Best Traditional Mysteries of 2023 by Crimereads and the Daily Telegraph, as well as nominated for a Capital Crime Award and longlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award. His third novel, Cabaret Macabre was published in August 2024, along with a collection of short stories, The Indian Rope Trick and Other Violent Entertainments, in November 2024.

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