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100 1  Mead, Tom,|eauthor. 
245 10 Death and the conjuror /|cTom Mead. 
250    First Mysterious Press edition. 
264  1 New York :|bThe Mysterious Press,|c2022. 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    256 pages ;|c22 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  A Joseph Spector locked-room mystery 
520    In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is 
       discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be
       no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are 
       no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder 
       weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland 
       Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician
       -turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. For who better to
       make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in 
       illusions? Spector has a knack for explaining the 
       inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this
       mystery than meets the eye. As he and the Inspector 
       interview the colorful cast of suspects among the 
       psychiatrist's patients and household, they uncover no 
       shortage of dark secrets--or motives for murder. When the 
       investigation dovetails into that of an apparently-
       impossible theft, the detectives consider the possibility 
       that the two transgressions are related. And when a second
       murder occurs, this time in an impenetrable elevator, they
       realize that the crime wave will become even more deadly 
       unless they can catch the culprit soon. A tribute to the 
       classic golden-age whodunnit, when crime fiction was a 
       battle of wits between writer and reader, Death and the 
       Conjuror joins its macabre atmosphere, period detail, and 
       vividly-drawn characters with a meticulously-constructed 
       fair play puzzle. Its baffling plot will enthrall readers 
       of mystery icons such as Agatha Christie and John Dickson 
       Carr, modern masters like Anthony Horowitz and Elly 
       Griffiths, or anyone who appreciates a good mystery. 
650  0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction. 
650  0 Nineteen thirties|vFiction. 
651  0 London (England)|vFiction. 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
800 1  Mead, Tom.|tJoseph Spector locked-room mystery ;|v01.