Book review: Now You See It...

[nick730]

Although mainly known as a horror writer, Richard Matheson plays around in a couple of different genres, and his 1995 novel Now You See It... is a particularly bonkers version of a locked room mystery. Once a big name, now a failing magician, The Great Delacorte gets his wife, assistant, and agent into his study where a seemingly endless

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[nick730]

Even though I kept imagining it on stage, and I'm sure all the illusions could be done (I've seen some pretty impressive ones in recent productions, there was an amazing trick at the end of Peter Pan at the Barbican) I was thinking you could never actually stage it, because it requires one character to convincingly pretend to be his sister for several scenes (that's not really a spoiler, it's given away in the first chapter.)