A circus owner’s murder produces a roster of bizarre suspectsSummer heat is choking
 New York, and the Great Merlini — conjurer, sleuth, and godson of P. T. Barnum — offers
 his friend Ross Harte a chance to get out of town. Before they can depart for the
 annual convention of the Society of American Magicians, a nervous woman enters Merlini’s
 shop, begging to purchase his most popular illusion: the headless lady. When the magician
 refuses to sell his last copy, she steals it.She is the daughter of Major Hannum, a 
recently deceased circus magnate whose death may not have been an accident. Somewhere 
among the carnies, barkers, and freaks lurks a killer, and only Merlini can save the 
carnival from further bloodshed. The killer’s plot is as sly as a funhouse mirror,
 but no detective is more at home in a world where nothing is what it seems.
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