The world of magicians and illusionists can be an intriguing setting for a novel, and these books dealing with the world of stage magic will make you want to disappear in their pages.
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The prestige / |
Two stage magicians in Victorian England are locked in a bitter rivalry that begins with professional jealousy but escalates to obsession. The fact that this novel won the World Fantasy Award tells readers that this is no ordinary historical novel. |
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The magician's assistant / |
Sabine was the assistant for magician Parsifal for many years, and after his lover dies, he marries her out of love and a wish to give her security, despite being gay. But at his death, Sabine realizes that although she loved Parsifal for years, she never really knew him. |
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The Barnum Museum : stories / |
This quirky collection of short stories features the story "The Illusionist," a story of love and magic that was the basis for the recent film. |
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Carter beats the Devil : a novel / |
Carter the Great is a magician working in 1920s San Francisco who finds himself being investigated by the Secret Service when President Warren Harding dies shortly after appearing in one of Carter's illusions. |
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The Houdini girl / |
Professional magician Red uses an illusion to attract the attention of the beautiful Rosa, but when Rosa dies in a freak accident, none of his magician's tricks can help him understand the mysteries of love and loss. |
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Now you see it : a Toby Peters mystery / |
Part of Kaminsky's series set in 1940s Hollywood, this entry features magician Harry Blackstone who comes to PI Toby Peters when he has trouble with a rival magician. |
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Shell game / |
When a legendary magic trick goes fatally wrong on live television, everyone believes that it had been a horrible accident, except for an aging magician in a private New York hospital and former street child-turned-NYPD officer Kathleen Mallory, who must search for a killer with a taste for the theatrical. |
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Veronica : a novel / |
Noted magician Albin White vanishes in the middle of a trick, sent hurtling back in time by his jealous apprentice. His fate is in the hands of Leo, a stranger who becomes a conduit between the magician and his daughter, Veronica. |
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The vanished man : a Lincoln Rhyme novel / |
After a student is found dead, forensic expert Lincoln Rhymes and his partner must enlist the help of the magic community to track a master illusionist and escape artist. |
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The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel / |
When Czech-born Joe Kavalier immigrates to Brooklyn, he teams up with his cousin Sammy Clay to create the comic book hero The Escapist, based on Joe's hero Harry Houdini. |