Autor/-in: Clayton Rawson

Clayton Rawson (1906-1971) was a novelist, editor, and magician. He is best known for creating the Great Merlini, an illusionist and amateur sleuth introduced in Death from a Top Hat. (1938). Rawson followed the character through three more novels, concluding the series with No Coffin for the Corpse. (1942). In 1941 and 1943 he published the short-story collections Death out of Thin Air. and Death from Nowhere. , starring Don Diavolo, an escape artist introduced in the Merlini series.