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A circus owner's murder produces a roster of bizarre suspects Summer temperature is choking New York, and the fantastic Merlini - conjurer, sleuth, and godson of P. T. Barnum - offers his good friend Ross Harte an opportunity to get out of town. Before they can depart for the annual convention of the Culture of American Magicians, a anxious woman gets into Merlini's shop, begging to acquire his most popular illusion: the headless sweetheart. When the magician won't sell his previous duplicate, she steals it. She is the girl of Major Hannum, a recently deceased circus magnate whose fatality may well not have been an accident. Somewhere on the list of carnies, barkers, and freaks lurks a killer, and only Merlini can save the carnival from further bloodshed. The killer's story is as sly as a funhouse reflection, but no detective is more at home in a world where there is nothing what it seems.
