Death and the Conjuror

“But that's all magic is, my dear. Taking the mundane and making it remarkable.”

This was a fun little locked room mystery in which a psychiatrist is murdered in his office under strange circumstances. At the same time in another part of the city, a valuable painting vanishes without a trace, seemingly into thin air. Joseph Spector is called on by the cops to help untangle this tangled mystery, and we get a fun romp through 1930s London.

Honestly this would've been a hit with me if the ending hadn't been so convoluted. The author included footnotes during his Big Reveal of the crime at the end where the clues were, which was a nice touch, but the actual reveal took pages and pages and pages of dialogue and was rather hard to follow initially.

Still, if locked room murders are your thing, absolutely give this a try.