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A thrilling locked-room murder mystery.

When Professor Giles Dawson, historian of magic and the great illusionists, visits the Circus Tropicana, wintering at a former RAF¿airfield in Devon, he is not there to be entertained.¿He is there at the request of the circus boss, Ramon Mordomo. Ramon Mordomo has experienced a series of disasters at the circus, which appear to be the work of someone trying to force him to give up the circus he loves - making him run the Gauntlet of Fear. On...

David Cargill was one of the first Christian missionaries in Fiji. Though published as a Memoir to his late wife, this is in effect a report of his seven years of mission work in Tonga and Fiji from 1833 to 1840, with interesting accounts of learning local languages and establishing an orthography for Fijian.

Jack Ramsden, Cabinetmaker for Stage Magicians, died whilst preparing his annual presentation for his wife's birthday. It was meant to be an ingenious demonstration of Magic and Illusion until it all went wrong. Jack was killed by a shot from a rifle on a stand. The puzzle was - he was alone in a locked room. Accident or suicide? Fourteen years later a cryptic letter from Laura, the daughter of the dead man, urges Giles Dawson, a historian of ...