Danger in the Dark:

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First edition, first printing (full number line). Small octavo in red-black DJ; 186 p, b&w illus; 21 cm. A fine, crisp copy in a fine DJ. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374316805

Author's first book. Children's book; Novel; Mystery. 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 just 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.