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Seeing Is Believing (Sir Henry Merrivale, Bk 12)
Seeing Is Believing - Sir Henry Merrivale, Bk 12 Author:Carter Dickson Everyone saw beautiful Vicki Fane plunge a dagger into her horrid husband's heart -- but she wasn't the murderer. Everyone knew that dashing Captain Frank Sharpless had served his lady love strychnine-laced grapefruit -- but he wasn't the poisoner. Everyone figured that "Doctor" Richard Rich's hypnotism act, performed f... more »or the amusement of the dinner guests at the Fane household, was just an illusion. But the disillusioning fact was that the corpses kept piling up!
Enter Sir Henry Merrivale. The canny, cantankerous supersleuth hated to have to interrupt the writing of his scandalous autobiography in order to solve a baffling case. But he just couldn't resist the challenge of taking the hype out of hypnotism and the hoke out of hocus-pocus. And before he'd let a mesmerizing maniac wreak havoc with his perilous parlor tricks, Sir Henry swore to stop the sinister spread of assassination by hallucination -- and let the evil eyes have it!« less