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Shell Game

She hit the New York Times When a legendary magic trick goes horribly awry on national TV, detective Kathleen Mallory knows the gruesome death won't be the last. For misdirection is the heart of all magic-and perfect crimes.

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  • "Shell game"
  • "Shell game"@it

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  • "The story recounts NYPD detective Kathleen Mallory's investigation of the "accidental" death of magician Oliver TreeAwho died while trying to recreate on live TV the late Max Candle's most famous trick, in which a man survives the fire of four crossbows. As Mallory capitalizes on her friendship with Candle's beloved cousin, Charles Butler, to delve into a WW II mystery involving a group of elderly magicians, all colleagues of Candle and Tree, hints of Mallory's inner life begin to emerge. Once a street kid, the coldly efficient detective comprehends better than most the soul-deadening choices these men made to survive during the war and the cycle of repentance and retribution that have set a deadly game in motion. Mallory is drawn in by the seductive Malakhai, a master of misdirection who is always accompanied by the illusion of his long-dead wife, Louisa. While the detective, in search of answers, uses her high-tech skills to manipulate data banks and to amass information, Charles Butler is in his basement, trying to put together Max's great trick. Meanwhile, the stalwart Sergeant Riker, Mallory's unofficial guardian and staunch defender, is on call."
  • "Oliver Tree, magicien, s'apprête à accomplir un tour nécessitant une grande adresse devant des millions de téléspectateurs. Mais les choses tournent mal et tout le monde est convaincu par la thèse de l'accident sauf l'inspecteur de la Brigade criminelle, Kathleen Mallory..."
  • "She hit the New York Times When a legendary magic trick goes horribly awry on national TV, detective Kathleen Mallory knows the gruesome death won't be the last. For misdirection is the heart of all magic-and perfect crimes."@en
  • "On live television a re-creation of a legendary magic trick goes horribly awry - a terrible accident, everyone agrees. But two people know it is not. One is an aged magician in a private hospital. What a worthy performance, he thinks, murdering a man while a million people watch. The other is Kathleen Mallory. Once a feral child, loose on the city streets, she is now a New York City policewoman and not much changed: a tall young woman with green eyes and a ferocious inner compass of right and wrong. For her, the death is too dramatic, too showy, and she is convinced that there will be another one - this killer loves spectacle."
  • "Former feral child Kathleen Mallory, now a New York City policewoman, sets out to prove murder when a legendary magic trick goes wrong on live television, killing a man in what is being billed as a terrible accident."@en
  • "Een vrouwelijke detective begeeft zich in de wereld der magie om de moord op een bejaarde goochelaar op te lossen."
  • "A magician dies while performing a trick on television and everyone assumes it was an accident, everyone except Kathleen Mallory of the New York police. She finds the motive in a crime involving magicians half a century earlier."
  • "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 streetchild-turned-NYPD officer Kathleen Mallory, who must search for a killer with a taste for the theatrical."@en
  • "On live television, a man dies during the re-creation of a legendary magic trick in Central Park. Millions of New Yorkers believe it was an accident, but two people know it was not. One is an aged magician in a private hospital in the northern corner of the state, and the other is Kathleen Mallory."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Shell Game"@en
  • "Louise sparì di notte : thriller"
  • "Louise sparì di notte : thriller"@it
  • "Shell game"@en
  • "Shell game"
  • "Shell game : [No. 5 : A Mallory novel]"
  • "De illusionist : thriller"
  • "Falscher Zauber : Roman"
  • "Shell game [text (large print)]"@en
  • "Shell Game [a Mallory novel]"@en
  • "Louise sparì di notte"
  • "Louise sparì di notte"@it
  • "Falscher Zauber Roman"
  • "Meurtre en direct"
  • "Shell game : a Mallory novel"

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