The Magician's Trunk McCabe and Cody Book 13

<p><strong>A MAGIC TRUNK OF TROUBLE! </strong></p><p><br></p><p>"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><br></p><p>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><br></p><p>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><br></p><p>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><br></p><p>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><br></p><p>This is a McCabe & Cody book unlike any other, truly a mystery in two parts. </p>