A casual glance out his apartment window turns magician Eli Marksโ life upside down. After spotting a dead body in the projection booth of the movie theater next door, Eli is pulled into the hunt for the killer. As he attempts to puzzle out a solution to this classic locked room mystery, he must deal with a crisis of a more personal nature: the appearance of a rival magician who threatens not only Eliโs faith in himself as a performer, but his relationship with his girlfriend.
But the killer wonโt wait and starts taking homicidal steps to bring Eliโs investigation to a quick and decisive end. Things get even worse when his magician rival offers his own plausible solution to the mystery. With all the oddball suspects gathered together, Eli must unveil the secrets to this movie-geek whodunit or find himself at the wrong end of the trick.
John Gaspard is the author of the popular Eli Marks mystery series, about a working magician who stumbles into murder cases. In real life, Johnโs not a magician, but he has directed several feature films that cost very little and made even lessโand thatโs no small trick. Heโs also written multiple books on the subject of low-budget filmmaking. Ironically, theyโve made more than the films.
Jim Cunningham is an audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to the Grahamโs Resolution series by A. R. Shaw and John Gaspardโs Eli Marks mysteries.