SuitabookPerformance and belief
Scooter helps his mother stage séances using tricks, while Houdini is presented as opposing fraudulent mediums and Scooter encounters the dead.
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Iain Lawrence - Author
A lively historical mystery follows Scooter from helping with staged séances to investigating a death after finding a dead man in Houdini’s torture tank. It offers adventure, period atmosphere, supernatural imagery and a brisk first-person voice.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA lively historical mystery follows Scooter from helping with staged séances to investigating a death after finding a dead man in Houdini’s torture tank. It offers adventure, period atmosphere, supernatural imagery and a brisk first-person voice.
Scooter helps his mother stage séances using tricks, while Houdini is presented as opposing fraudulent mediums and Scooter encounters the dead.
After finding a body, Scooter begins investigating the murder and faces Houdini while pursuing answers.
Scooter lives with his medium mother and helps her host séances to make a small living, despite not being amused by the associated jokes.
The central death is encountered in a torture tank, and the story includes murder investigation, séance tricks, corpses, spirits and suspense.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.