Reviews

The Houdini Specter by Daniel Stashower

omnibozo22's review against another edition

3.0

The most entertaining aspect of this fanciful Houdini story is how irreverent it is about ole Harry! Harry and Dash attend a seance with the aim of exposing the medium, only to be caught in the midst of the murder of one of the participants. The duo are baffled at the murder, but braggart Harry repeatedly bursts out with theories that are quickly proven wrong. As with so many stories like this, the author plays with the names of actual magicians when naming various characters in the story. Magicians will quickly identify the referents. There are a couple of tongue in cheek appendices to the main story, one featuring the magic shop that Houdini briefly owned, though the name has been monkeyed with. A bit of the origins of some current technology also makes an appearance.

stephang18's review

4.0

As good as the other two in the series.