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Death from a Top Hat
Death from a Top Hat
Author: Clayton Rawson
"Death From a Top Hat" has been called a great first novel. The book features two locked-room murders and pays homage to the master of the impossible crime, John Dickson Carr, by containing a discussion of the sort found in Carr's "The Three Coffins." — The book, one of the "Golden Age" mysteries, features the Great Merlini as the man who solves ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780930330446
ISBN-10: 0930330447
Publication Date: 6/1986
Pages: 286
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Publisher: International Polygonics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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1986 edition of this 1938 classic. If you've never read a Rawson mystery before you're in for a treat. In this story the magician/detective The Great Merlini takes on witchcraft, murder and mayhem, and making up crazy verses as he goes.


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