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The Miser's Dream

The Eli Marks Mysteries, Book 3

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The Miser's Dream

By: John Gaspard
Narrated by: Jim Cunningham
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A casual glance out his apartment window turns magician Eli Marks' life upside down. After spotting a dead body in the projection booth of the movie theater next door, Eli is pulled into the hunt for the killer. As he attempts to puzzle out a solution to this classic locked room mystery, he must deal with a crisis of a more personal nature: the appearance of a rival magician who threatens not only Eli's faith in himself as a performer, but his relationship with his girlfriend.

But the killer won't wait and starts taking homicidal steps to bring Eli's investigation to a quick and decisive end. Things get even worse when his magician rival offers his own plausible solution to the mystery. With all the oddball suspects gathered together, Eli must unveil the secrets to this movie-geek whodunit or find himself at the wrong end of the trick.

©2018 John Gaspard (P)2018 Spoken Realms Cosy Detective Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Magic Users Cosy Mysteries Murder Mystery

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I'm surprised how much I enjoy Eli Mark's adventures. Good characters and even though I guessed the villain early on I still enjoyed it.

Enjoyable listen

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excellent story , wonderfully read. also very very funny, with some great observational humour. can't wait to listen to the next one.

A joy from start to finish

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I really enjoyed this book. Jim Cunningham's performance is delightful and playful, he is such a great narrator. I find him so engaging and charismatic, and he is clearly enjoying reading the book. John Gaspard's writing is solid, the mystery elements are great and the characters are truly wonderful. I love Mr Lime, he is such a great entity in this world. Eli's relationship with the directive and his ex-wife is great. I had a lot of fun with this book and am loving the series.

Absolutely fantastic!

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I enjoyed this book. This entertainer (because this is surely what this author is) continues to delight and surprise his audience. This is the third book in the Eli Marks series and once again I was surprised by who the killer turned out to be, which is unusual because I have at least guessed who the killer was if not got the reason why but not in this case. A real magic trick. I am loving all the magic tricks woven into the stories which makes it very entertaining, especially as they enhance the mystery. The locked room scenario is always intriguing but with the magic tricks and possible solutions it was next level listening. I really like the characters and am off to hopefully be amazed with the next book.
Eli is a magician and is use to seeing strange things but a quick look out of his bedroom window has him on the phone reporting a dead body. The cinema is locked up tight but that somehow doesn't stop a killer from killing the projectionis and stealing a very rare film. The mysterious Mr Lime is back and offers up four names of possible buyers of the film. Can Eli work out how the murder was committed and which suspect is the killer? All before he becomes the next victim because somebody doesn't want the magician to reveal his secrets.
I like the narrator. He is entertaining and works his own magic on the listener keeping them hooked until the very end.

The magic of movies

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It's extremely well and funny, great mistory hard to know who done it recommended

Really enjoyed

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