The Magician's Trunk (McCabe and Cody Book 13)

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong>A MAGIC TRUNK OF TROUBLE! </strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Perhaps by this point you already know that I have willed you all my books on magic and my magician's trunk a kind of relic which once belonged to the Great Blackstone-Harry Blackstone Sr. You also get the contents of the trunk. Some of those contents you can keep some you will know how to redirect appropriately.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>So wrote the late Septimus Pogue to Sebastian McCabe to whom he was a mentor in Mac's youth. The only problem is that the Blackstone trunk is missing. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Thus begins the latest case for the mystery-writing professor and his best friend and brother-in-law Thomas Jefferson Cody. Or rather two cases-for the magician's trunk which has a strange habit of disappearing and re-appearing again-winds up being at the center of two murders. And the second murder only occurs after the first has been solved.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>To get the bottom of the matter Mac and Jeff have to sort through a collection of suspects that includes an animal channeler an extreme saver a bald and beautiful magician/wedding planner a city council candidate who wants to ban electric scooters at night a witch and an 86-year-old former funeral home partner. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>And all that is before the TV show <em>Midwest Murders</em> comes to town-and with it a woman out of Jeff's past.  </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>This is a McCabe & Cody book unlike any other truly a mystery in two parts. </p>