But in a public illusion that goes terribly wrong, one man is dead and another stands charged with his murder. In the months following Houdini’s death, Wren is drawn into a web of mystery surrounding a spiritualist by the name of Horace Stapleton, a man defamed by Houdini’s ardent debunking of fraudulent mystics in the years leading up to his death. As notorious for her inherited wealth and gentleman’s dress as she is for her unsavory upbringing in the back halls of a vaudeville theater, Wren lives in a world that challenges all manner of conventions. Jenny “Wren” Lockhart is a bold eccentric-even for a female vaudevillian. or silence her before she can reveal them on her own.īoston, 1926. Harry Houdini’s one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. I was sent my copy at no charge by TLC Book Tours but as always, my thoughts are my own. The Illusionist’s Apprentice is a tale of murder at its heart but so much more in its soul. Welcome to a world of illusion, mystery and the story of a woman who tries very hard to keep her secrets to herself.
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