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The bone magician

With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims may have attended the performance of a stage magician who claim...

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Main Author: Higgins, F. E.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2008.
Edition:1st Feiwel and Friends ed.
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Magicians > Young adult fiction.
Undertakers and undertaking > Young adult fiction.
Dead > Young adult fiction.
Mystery fiction > Young adult.
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A corpse on the cusp of putrefaction could hardly be considered the most entertaining company on a winter's evening, but Pin Carpue didn't do what he did for the conversation. He did it for the money. Tonight, however, things were different. If the body he was watching--her name, when alive, was Sybil--had revived and tried to engage him in some sort of discourse, he couldn't have replied even if he had wanted to. For Pin had just succumbed to a soporific drug. Hardly able to move, certainly unable to speak, he lay in a semi-comatose haze on a bench in the corner of the dark room. The last thing his soggy brain recalled was leaving his lodgings. As for his immediate whereabouts, it was a mystery. Excerpted from The Bone Magician by F. E. Higgins All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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