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041    eng 
082 04 813/.54|223 
092 0  Deckare|bengelska 
100 1  Rawson, Clayton,|d1906-1971 
245 10 Death from a top hat /|cClayton Rawson ; introduction by 
       Otto Penzler 
264  1 New York :|bPenzler Publishers,|c[2018] 
264  4 |cñ965 
300    iv, 293 pages :|billustration ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 0  A Great Merlini Mystery 
490 1  Otto Penzler presents American mystery classics 
500    Original copyright date, 1938 
520    "Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his 
       name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days 
       running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his 
       nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD. The cops
       call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they 
       can only be comprehended by a magician's mind. In the most
       recent case, two occultists are discovered dead in locked 
       rooms, one spread out on a pentagram, both appearing to 
       have been murdered under similar circumstances. The list 
       of suspects includes an escape artist, a professional 
       medium, and a ventriloquist, so it's clear that the crimes
       took place in a realm that Merlini knows well. But in the 
       end it will take his logical skills, and not his magical 
       ones, to apprehend the killer. Reprinted for the first 
       time in over twenty years, Death from a Top Hat is an 
       ingeniously-plotted puzzle set in the world of New York 
       stage magic, which was at its pinnacle in the early 
       twentieth century. In 1981, the novel was selected as one 
       of the top ten locked room mysteries of all time by a 
       panel of mystery-world luminaries"--|cAmazon 
650  0 Magicians|vFiction 
650  0 Occultists|vFiction 
650  0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction 
650  7 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional.|2bisacsh 
653    Classic crime 
653    Deckarklassiker 
655  7 Romaner|2saogf 
655  7 Deckare|2saogf 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
830  0 Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library 
907 00 190123