Killer Finish

"It does appear that the Great Gandalfo has suffered an irreversible mistake in an otherwise well-conducted act!"

And in this case, appearances were not deceiving. The Great Gandolfo was run through with his own swords, and it didn't take a Sherlock Holmes to see that the erstwhile magician had died on stage--literally.

What it did take was Spencer Holmes, Sherlock's equally talented grandson, who happened to be attending Gandolfo's final performance. And what the master sleuth, along with his sidekick, Sowhat Dihje, finds upon investigation is a twisted trail of colorful suspects, grand illusions, missing persons, and voices from the dead. And that is only the beginning. For in the city by the bay, the mixture of magic and murder is potent--so potent that even the most pedigreed of detectives will be astounded by a...Killer Finish