Word: magicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COFFIN FOR THE CORPSE-Clayfon Rawson-Little, Brown & Co. ($2). A rich spiritualism devotee sees the ghost of a blackmailer he slugged and buried, and is later himself found slain in the locked and weaponless room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...
...like this?" Says The Raven, without batting an eye: "I feel fine." Before The Raven finally meets his maker and cashes in his sins at the Hays office, he has punctured a number of other citizens, both deserving and undeserving, met straight-haired Veronica Lake (a torch-singing magician employed...
...Germans. In 1914, aged 35, he was wounded in a French bayonet attack near Charleroi and left for dead on the field. Captured by the Germans, he made his first escape via Holland to England, aided by his fluent German, variously disguised as a butcher, stableboy, coal man, and magician in a traveling circus. At one point he was helped by Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1915 he was back with the French Fifth Army...
Fake. In Lancaster, Pa., Marvin Stoy and Robert Jones, both ten, apprehended by police, admitted that they had stolen Blackstone the Magician's wand, had thrown it away because it didn't work...
Onetime law clerk, piano salesman, magician and Baltimore reporter, Editor Oursler went to work for Macfadden in 1921, two weeks later was left in charge while Macfadden took a vacation. Thereafter Editor Oursler sat permanently on Macfadden's right. He shuffled staffs', set up and knocked down magazines, started that ill-fated and ill-smelling Macfadden tabloid, the New York Graphic...