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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Draws on newly uncovered archives to reveal Houdini's secret work as a spy for the United States and England, his post-war efforts to expose the fraudulent activities of spiritualist mediums, and the plot organized by Arthur Conan Doyle to have him murdered.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The United States government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of those who die on top-secret missions. Nola was a childhood friend of Zig's daughter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"En su gran regreso a la novela, Juan José Rodríguez nos cuenta cómo un joven aventurero conoce el mismo día al amor de su vida y a su peor enemigo. Cuando el joven héroe presencia el espectáculo de un grupo de magos decide abandonarlo todo con tal de seguir y enamorar a la bella Florissa: la misteriosa y bellísima atracción principal del grupo, que fue aprendiz del mismísimo Harry Houdini. Pero debe renunciar a todo, y arriesgar su vida,...
Author
Series
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel, aided by the famous magician Harry Houdini, plots to unmask a phony spirit advisor attempting to relieve the boy's great-aunt of her fortune.
Author
Series
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nate, aided by his newly-discovered cousin and the famous magician Harry Houdini, catches the Fifth Avenue Slasher, solves a string of burglaries, and stops a notorious gang leader.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 3
Language
English
Description
In 1889, the ship Etruria departs Liverpool, England, for New York carrying Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her crime-solving partner, Thomas, a famous escape artist, and a cold-blooded killer.--
1889. Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York on the opulent RMS Etruria. When young women begin to go missing, a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. As Audrey Rose and Thomas begin to piece together the gruesome investigation,...
16) The magician and the spirits: Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead
Author
Publisher
Viking, Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Famed illusionist Harry Houdini embarks on a quest to investigate spiritual phenomena and the possibility of communication with those on the "other side.""--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American. Her supernatural...
19) Other worlds
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The old-fashioned ghost story has never fallen out of style: Charles Dickens is still best remembered for A Christmas Carol, and Peter Straub, despite his many fine novels, found in the ghost story his most potent tale (Ghost Story, of course!). When Shirley Jackson wrote The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James wrote The Turn of the Screw, did they know they were creating their most-remembered works in the horror genre?
20) Shots at sea
Author
Series
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
While traveling to England with his mother and great-aunt on the ocean liner Lusitania in 1911, thirteen-year-old Nate, delighted to find that the Houdinis are also on board, finds himself involved in another dangerous adventure as he and Houdini try to find the man responsible for attempting to assassinate another passenger--President Theodore Roosevelt.
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