Danger in the Dark
A Houdini & Nate Mystery
Kids, Fiction, Historical, Mysteries and Detective Stories, Teen
| Author: | Tom Lalicki | ISBN: | 9781429930703 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | Publication: | March 30, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) | Language: | English |
| Author: | Tom Lalicki |
| ISBN: | 9781429930703 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Publication: | March 30, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
