Stage magicians - as sleuths, victims or side characters - were common features of Golden Age detective stories. This spring, the second installment in two new series starring illusionists, The Raven Thief by Gigi Pandian and Tom Mead’s The Murder Wheel, will continue to build on this tradition, showing that sometimes it takes a liar to spot the truth. Please lie to me,’” Ian Frisch, author of Magic is Dead: My Journey into the World’s Most Secretive Society of Magicians, told me.Īnd, yet, we often see stage magicians serving as detectives - people entrusted with uncovering the truth - in mysteries dating back to the Golden Age. “Being a magician is the only job where someone will come up to you and say, ‘Please trick me.
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