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The Great Merlini
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Great Merlini was the lead character of four Golden Age mystery novels and twelve short stories. He was a stage magician who had retired to run a magic supply shop in New York City. Merlini's adventures were written by Clayton Rawson, himself a trained magician. (One of Merlini's signature tricks, vanishing a lit cigarette, was done the same way Rawson did it.)The novels are: Death from a Top Hat (1938) The Footprints on the Ceiling (1939) The Headless Lady (1940) No Coffin for the Corpse (1942)The short stories were published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between 1946 and 1971 (the last one published after Rawson's death). They were later collected in The Great Merlini: The Complete Stories of the Magician Detective.Two of the Merlini novels were turned into movies, but with heavy editing. Miracles For Sale is based on Death From A Top Hat, though with the lead character's name changed. The Man Who Wouldn't Die took No Coffin For The Corpse and spliced in a more popular fictional detective of the time (Michael Shayne).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Rawson wrote a pilot episode for a Merlini TV show in 1951, but it wasn't picked up by the networks. | |
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Circus Brat | |
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Circus Brat: Merlini was the child of a family of circus acrobats, and got his initial training in stage magic from the sideshow's magician. | |
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Always Murder | |
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Always Murder: Averted in one short story (poisoning to scare the victim, but a deliberately nonlethal dose), but played straight everywhere else. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Linda Skelton of Footprints On The Ceiling. She deliberately administered a toxin to another character to destroy his career on the stage. | |
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Bullet Catch | |
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Bullet Catch: A performance of this trick is the climax of Death from a Top Hat. The murderer tried to sabotage the trick to ensure the performer (a possible witness against him) would die. Too bad the whole trick was set up as a trap for him, including a marksman firing the gun who was under strict orders to miss. | |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
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Bullet Catch / int_67843ae9 | |
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Circus Brat / int_67843ae9 | |
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Cold Reading / int_67843ae9 | |
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Empty Piles of Clothing / int_67843ae9 | |
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Everyone Knows Morse / int_67843ae9 | |
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Friend on the Force / int_67843ae9 | |
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Locked Room Mystery / int_67843ae9 | |
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Madame Fortune / int_67843ae9 | |
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Magician Detective / int_67843ae9 | |
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Medication Tampering / int_67843ae9 | |
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Murder by Mistake / int_67843ae9 | |
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Placebo Effect / int_67843ae9 | |
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Shoot Out the Lock / int_67843ae9 | |
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Tap on the Head / int_67843ae9 | |
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Violin Scam / int_67843ae9 | |
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Yellowface / int_67843ae9 |
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