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Disappearing Act (The Speaker Series)

Jasper Barton, reporter for the Harperville Gazette, is pleasantly surprised when he gets called up on stage to aid the traveling prestidigitator, the Great Scotini, with a dangerous trick, pushing a sword through the man's forehead, and is astonished when he can't mark how the trick is done. It looks too real.

 

Going backstage to interview the magician for the paper, he soon realizes how right he was. The real sleight of hand, he soon learns, stems from the performers themselves, the magician and his unassuming assistant, the Lovely Janet. Not everything is as it seems. If only Jasper could find his notebook…

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Disappearing Act (The Speaker Series)

Jasper Barton, reporter for the Harperville Gazette, is pleasantly surprised when he gets called up on stage to aid the traveling prestidigitator, the Great Scotini, with a dangerous trick, pushing a sword through the man's forehead, and is astonished when he can't mark how the trick is done. It looks too real.

 

Going backstage to interview the magician for the paper, he soon realizes how right he was. The real sleight of hand, he soon learns, stems from the performers themselves, the magician and his unassuming assistant, the Lovely Janet. Not everything is as it seems. If only Jasper could find his notebook…

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Disappearing Act (The Speaker Series)

Disappearing Act (The Speaker Series)

by Lee Burton
Disappearing Act (The Speaker Series)
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Disappearing Act (The Speaker Series)

Disappearing Act (The Speaker Series)

by Lee Burton

Overview

Jasper Barton, reporter for the Harperville Gazette, is pleasantly surprised when he gets called up on stage to aid the traveling prestidigitator, the Great Scotini, with a dangerous trick, pushing a sword through the man's forehead, and is astonished when he can't mark how the trick is done. It looks too real.

 

Going backstage to interview the magician for the paper, he soon realizes how right he was. The real sleight of hand, he soon learns, stems from the performers themselves, the magician and his unassuming assistant, the Lovely Janet. Not everything is as it seems. If only Jasper could find his notebook…

Product Details

BN ID: 2940179338604
Publisher: Lee Burton
Publication date: 10/24/2023
Series: The Speaker Series
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 964,519
File size: 217 KB

About the Author

In 2011, Lee Burton won the Percy Janes First Novel Award in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition, and in 2017 was a finalist in The Writers of the Future contest. In 2023, he'll be publishing the first of his Speaker Series stories.

Lee Burton lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, where for the past ten years he has worked as a freelance editor with Ocean's Edge Editing, collaborating with numerous bestselling authors from across all genres of fiction. Though his stories are diverse, they all revel in the music of words, and celebrate imagination.

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