Oliver Tree had spent his retirement years working out a solution to the Lost Illusion. Now, at last, he was about to give a death-defying performance in a sell-out festival of magicians in Manhattan. In front of a live audience and the television cameras, four crossbow arrows were fired at their human target. The screams were real, and tragically for Oliver Tree, so was the blood. Even if Charles Butler, cousin of the late great Max Candle who had invented the Lost Illusion was convinced along with eight million viewers that the trick had simply gone wrong. Detective Sgt Kathy Mallory knew instinctively that this was murder. A murder, curiously, that might be linked with the death of a woman half a century ago. . . .
- ISBN10 0091802148
- ISBN13 9780091802141
- Publish Date 5 August 1999 (first published 5 July 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 September 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Hutchinson
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English