Danger in the Dark: A Houdini & Nate Mystery

Tom Lalicki

Mar 2010 · Houdini and Nate Mysteries Book 1 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

About this eBook

Harry Houdini - the world's greatest escape artist - is in need of a new hat. That is what brings him to Bennett & Son, Gentlemen's Hatters of Fifth Avenue, where young Nathaniel G. Makeworthy Fuller is working for the summer. A surprising friendship develops between the world-famous daredevil and the boy clerk, and it comes in the nick of time. A suspicious stranger has recently wheedled his way into the confidences of Nate's wealthy great-aunt, with whom the boy and his widowed mother live. Now their house is filled with spooky late-night gatherings, the purpose of which is kept secret from Nate. Houdini is just the man to tackle this tangled mystery - and help Nate and his family escape the grasp of an interloper more cunning and dangerous than Nate could have imagined.

A truly captivating historical adventure, Danger in the Dark launches the Houdini & Nate Mystery series with fast-paced plotting and a colorful blend of fact and fiction.

Danger in the Dark is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

About the author

TOM LALICKI is the author of three acclaimed nonfiction books for young readers, including Grierson's Raid: A Daring Cavalry Strike Through the Heart of the Confederacy. He lives in Westchester County, New York. Danger in the Dark is his first novel.