Danger in the Dark

Harry Houdini - the world's greatest escape artist - is in need of a new hat. That is what brings him to Bennett & Son, Gentlemen's Hatters of Fifth Avenue, where young Nathaniel G. Makeworthy Fuller is working for the summer. A surprising friendship develops between the world-famous daredevil and the boy clerk, and it comes in the nick of time. A suspicious stranger has recently wheedled his way into the confidences of Nate's wealthy great-aunt, with whom the boy and his widowed mother live. Now their house is filled with spooky late-night gatherings, the purpose of which is kept secret from Nate. Houdini is just the man to tackle this tangled mystery - and help Nate and his family escape the grasp of an interloper more cunning and dangerous than Nate could have imagined.

A truly captivating historical adventure, Danger in the Dark launches the Houdini & Nate Mystery series with fast-paced plotting and a colorful blend of fact and fiction.

Danger in the Dark is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author: Tom Lalicki
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 03/30/2010
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780312602147

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.5
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 111293 / Danger in the Dark: A Houdini & Nate Mystery

About the Author

TOM LALICKI is the author of three acclaimed nonfiction books for young readers, including Grierson's Raid: A Daring Cavalry Strike Through the Heart of the Confederacy. He lives in Westchester County, New York. Danger in the Dark is his first novel.

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