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O'Connell, Carol | Shell Game | Unsigned Book - Advance Reading Copy
O'Connell, Carol | Shell Game | Book - Advance Reading Copy


 
SHELL GAME by Carol O'Connell
ADVANCE READING COPY

Advance reading copy, mint, new/unread in pictorial wraps. 1999 NY: Putnam ISBN 9780399144950
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SHELL GAME by Carol O'Connell - BOOK - ADVANCE READING COPY

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There has always been a touch of magic, a whiff of deception and illusion about Mallory, the New York homicide detective who never lets anyone call her Kathy. In highly praised books such as Killing Critics, Mallory's Oracle, and The Man Who Cast Two Shadows, Carol O'Connell has wrapped her fascinating, frustrating character in a cloak of myth. So it's no surprise that in her fifth adventure, Mallory is literally surrounded by magic and magicians, trying to find out why an old illusionist was killed while re-creating a famous trick involving four crossbows. All of the suspects are magicians themselves, connected to the past and each other by events in Paris during World War II. One of them, a self-declared madman named Malakhai, lives in a mental hospital and maintains an elaborate fantasy involving his dead wife. There's a marvelous set piece early on--a poker game at which this invisible woman not only takes a seat but also makes bets, wins hands, and smokes lipsticked cigarettes.
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