In 1904 Edna Ferber is a nineteen-year-old girl reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin
 Crescent, an occupation that many townspeople, including her own family, consider
 scandalous for a proper young girl. By chance, she interviews Harry Houdini, in town 
visiting old friends. Houdini, as Ehrich Weiss, spent his boyhood years in the small town.
 When Frana Lempke, a beautiful young German high-school girl, disappears and is soon
 discovered murdered, Edna asks Houdini for help in solving the murder. The unusual 
crime baffles the local police because Frana mysteriously disappeared from a locked room 
at the high school. Houdini, the celebrated escape artist, takes a liking to Edna and agrees
 to help. But as Edna pursues the story, alienating any number of people, she senses that
 she is being followed. It’s a troubling summer for her. Her homelike is in disorder,
 though she is dedicated to a blind father. Her mother and sister dislike her walking
 the streets as a reporter. Worse, the newsroom has become a hostile environment, with
 a new city editor determined to undermine her. Piecing together the clues, she comes
 to see that her own life in the small town is unraveling. As the future best-selling 
writer starts to solve the crime, she understands that her involvement will impact her
 life forever.  In 1904 future best-selling writer Edna Ferber, then a nineteen-year-old
 fledgling reporter in Appleton, Wisconsin, teams up with famed escape artist Harry Houdini
 to solve the baffling murder of a beautiful young girl who has mysteriously disappeared 
from a locked room at the local high school
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