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Girl reporter and Houdini solve locked-room mystery, danger closes in.
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Escape Artist

An Edna Ferber Mystery

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    9 May 2011

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Summary

In 1904, Edna Ferber is a 19-year-old girl reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin, Crescent, an occupation her family considers scandalous for a proper young girl. By chance, she interviews Harry Houdini, in town visiting old friends. When beautiful young Frana Lempke disappears and is soon discovered murdered, the crime baffles the local police; Frana disappeared from a locked room at the high school. Edna asks Houdini for help in solving the murder. But as Edna pursues the story, she senses that she is being followed. Though she is dedicated to her blind father, Edna’s homelife is in disorder. And now the newsroom has become a hostile environment, with a new city editor determined to undermine her.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781590588499
ISBN-10:1590588495
Author:Ed Ifkovic
Publisher:Sourcebooks, Inc
Imprint:Poisoned Pen Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:9 May 2011
Weight:259g
Dimensions:140mm x 216mm
Series:Edna Ferber Mysteries
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Escape Artist by Ed Ifkovic - ISBN: 9781590588499
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Critics Review

A thoroughly charming mystery. Edna Ferber makes a wonderful sleuth. (starred review)

A thoroughly charming mystery. Edna Ferber makes a wonderful sleuth. (starred review) * Booklist *

About The Author

Ed Ifkovic

Ed Ifkovic taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for over three decades. His short stories and essays have appeared in the Village Voice, America, Hartford Monthly, and Journal of Popular Culture. A longtime devotee of mystery novels, he fondly recalls discovering Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason series in a family bookcase, and his immediate obsession with the whodunit world.

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