Check out the cover for The Alarming Career of Sir Richard Blackstone by Lisa Doan (Sky Pony, 2017). From the promotional copy:
A funny middle grade mystery adventure complete with an unconventional knight, a science experiment gone awry, a giant spider, and a boy to save the day!
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By Amy Axelrod & David Axelrod
When we began, we knew that we wanted to write a novel about a down-and-out magician during World War I.
We knew the setting would be New York City and that this washed-up magician,
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I was reading books about Houdini. It seemed to me one of the most exciting things about him was that, as well as being the world’s most famous illusionist, he also devoted much of his life to doing battle against “magic”.
Enraged at the thought of ordinary people being exploited,
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