Houdini Unbound: Mystery, Music and Flying Machines - [AUDIOBOOK]

One of the Greatest and Most Sensational Successes' - Mr Harry Richards.
It is 1910, Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini, the Great Mysteriarch, is performing in Australia for the first time. Houdini has a new obsession: aviation. He is intent on claiming a record - first to fly in Australia. But he has competition from other aspiring aviators and is left restless and distracted when his leap-in-chains from a Melbourne bridge disturbs a corpse in the Yarra ... Or does it? His wife, Bess, left alone in their hotel, discovers that Houdini is not the most famous visitor. Also present is a more illustrious figure who has performed his own vanishing act.
This intriguing novel by the acclaimed author of Burke's Soldier merges history and invention, reality and illusion. Like Houdini's own act, is it possible to believe what you see or hear?