
Escapade
Walter Satterthwait
Hired to guard Harry Houdini from a rival magician's death threats, Phil Beaumont finds his hands full at a stately country home where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is among the guests and the host is found murdered.
- Publisher
- Saint Martin's Paperbacks
- ISBN-13
- 9780312959203
- Topics
- Murder mysteryCountry house whodunitHistorical figures as characters
Awards
- Agatha Award for Best Contemporary NovelShortlisted(1995)
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