Death from a Top Hat (Great Merlini Series #1)

A clever magician tries to solve the case of a locked-room murder that only a talented escape artist could have committed.

Freelance scribe Ross Harte is working on an essay about the sad state of the modern mystery novel when a scream comes from the hallway: "There is death in that room!" Harte finds a trio of conjurers trying to get into the apartment of his neighbor, the mysterious Dr. Cesare Sabbat, famed occultist and, for the past few minutes, a corpse.

They break down the door t...