The Footprints on the Ceiling
- The Footprints on the Ceiling
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name = The Footprints on the Ceiling
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author = Clayton Rawson
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country = United States
language = English
series = The Great Merlini
genre = Mystery novels
publisher = Putnam's
release_date = 1939
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 240 pp (in Dell mapback #121)
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Death from a Top Hat
followed_by = The Headless Lady
"The Footprints on the Ceiling" (1939) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson.
It is the second of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonist.
Plot summary
Ross Harte, publicity writer, is investigating the person behind a classified ad seeking a haunted house for sale. When it turns out to be his old friend The Great Merlini, Harte drops by his store, The Magic Shop, looking for an explanation. Harte and Merlini are soon swept up into a complex and bizarre plot involving the death of Linda Skelton, an agoraphobic heiress, at her home on Skelton Island, a tiny island in the East River of New York City. The plot soon expands to involve a psychic researcher and his favourite medium, a group of treasure hunters seeking a sunken treasure, counterfeit golden guinea coins, a man with blue skin (argyria), a gangster named Charles Lamb, a second murder by "the bends", and a murder scene with a set of neat footprints marching across the ceiling. Merlini survives more than one attempt on his life before he can call in the police and conclusively bring the crimes home to the guilty.
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