Carter Beats the Devil

[ctd]

As part of my "try to unsee the events of the first three Song of Ice and Fire volumes" program, I read "Carter Beats the Devil", which is a relatively lighthearted book set in 1923, involving a stage performer who appears to kill Warren G. Harding. He also meets Houdini and an early incarnation of the Marx Brothers. The whole thing is set in San

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[elusis]

Interesting. They had a cocktail with the same name at Flora last night; I'd no idea it was a novel.

[ctd]

Last time I was there, they also had a big ol' print of the book cover! And I also was un-hep to its literary basis.