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What Rough Beast

Along the shadowy, cobblestone streets of Victorian London, Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master-detective Sherlock Holmes, join forces in an unlikely friendship, to solve their own grizzly murder mystery. In this meticulo...

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File Size: 992 KB
Print Length: 434 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (August 15, 2001)
Publication Date: August 15, 2001
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Language: English
ASIN: B00FOTS8OW
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It's 1903. Harry Houdini, the great escape artist, seeks the help of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, to discredit Maximillian Cairo, an infamous occultist and the most debauched man in London. But the two men get more than they bargained for when they interrupt a magic ritual.That night, they set something loose - something no one can face and stay sane. Something that runs amok, spreading death and madness throughout an unsus...

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