Horten's Incredible Illusions: Magic, Mystery & Another Very Strange Adventure

Lissa Evans

Sep 2012 · Union Square & Co.

About this ebook

This magical follow-up to Hortens Miraculous Mechanisms continues Stuarts amazing adventures--with more enchantment, more surprises, and more thrills. When we last left 10-year-old Stuart, he had just recovered his great-uncle Tonys long-lost magic workshop. Now all the priceless tricks are on display in the Beeton Museum--and Stuart is junior curator of the exhibit! But another mystery awaits Stuart: Where did the great magician hide his will? Only by entering the magic world of the workshop can he find the answer. But as the mechanisms whisk him off on increasingly incredible adventures, the puzzles become harder and harder to solve…and the stakes higher. With even more page-turning action, this second book in the exciting middle-grade series does a magic trick of its own: its even better than the first!

About the author

Lissa Evans, who resides in London with her husband and two daughters, has traveled quite a mysterious path to middle-grade novelist. After a brief career in medicine and an even briefer one in stand-up comedy, Lissa became a comedy producer and spent a decade running a red pencil through other peoples work before eventually beginning to write herself. Lissa has written three adult novels and a picture book. This is her second work of middle-grade fiction.