![]() It's likely that the president's backstage visit with the magician, and his subsequent eagerness to participate in a hair-raising stunt, holds a clue to his unexplained death a few hours later in a San Francisco hotel room. ![]() The dissolute president, leading an administration that is sinking into unprecedented corruption and greed, has appeared anxious and frightened during a 1923 train trip to the West Coast, designed as an escape from the political anxieties of Washington, D.C. The victim - here Gold goes for high stakes - is none other than the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. The novel's sleuth, on the other hand, is a bumbler: Jack Griffin, a retirement-age Secret Service agent despised by his younger colleagues. The apparent murderer is glamorous and appealing: Charles Carter, a well-known magician from a wealthy family of San Francisco eccentrics. Like a veteran illusionist, first-time author Glen David Gold puts his audience off balance immediately. Set in the early 20th-century world of vaudeville magic, Carter Beats the Devil is as fascinating - and also as frustrating - as a conjurer's act. ![]() ![]() Review | Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold ![]()
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