KOTZWINKLE, WILLIAM — Fata Morgana

Black Swan. 1983. (ISBN: 9780552990424). Paperback, 20cm. Paperback in average condition. Pages tanned. Owners name on first page. 'The year is 1861. Ric Lazare, a brilliant young magician, has mesmerized the fashionable salons of Paris with his opulence, his exquisitely beautiful wife and a fortune-telling of unearthly accuracy. But what is the source of his strange gift? Is he a crook, a master of illusion, a real magician or a reincarnation from an older world? Inspector Picard, whose duty it is to protect the dazzling leaders of society in their flirtations with the demi-monde, believes Lazare to be a fraud and a murderer and determines to expose him. But as Picard travels across Europe in order to investigate the strange secrets of the magician's past, he finds himself drawn into sinister worlds of illusion ranging from the bizarre creations of a Nuremberg toymaker to the legendary Fata Morgana'. Used: Acceptable.