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Disbelief

Midnight MagicA magi­cian who does­n’t believe in mag­ic? That’s the premise of Mur­der at Mid­night and Mid­night Mag­ic, two books about Fab­rizio and Man­gus the Magi­cian which are also mys­ter­ies. Two more good books for hol­i­day reading.

Here’s what I have to say about Mid­night Mag­ic on my web­site: “I know where the set­ting for this book entered my imagination—Naples, Italy, which I once vis­it­ed. But the book came about because I want­ed to write a scary book that wasn’t real­ly scary, a ghost sto­ry, that may or may not have ghosts, and a tale of mag­ic, that might, or might not have mag­ic. But what real­ly makes the book fun is the rela­tion­ship between Man­gus the magi­cian, who does not believe in mag­ic, and his ser­vant boy, Fab­rizio, who does believes in mag­ic a great deal. The pre­quel to this book, which tells how the two came togeth­er, is called Mur­der at Midnight.”

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