Novelised from the scenarios of a fifteen-episode Houdini film serial, the story follows the agent Quentin Locke as he fights a conspiracy that suppresses inventions for profit. Locke escapes acid baths, garottes and a menacing metal automaton while protecting Eva Brent, whose father is in the grip of the scheming Balcom and the mad old Doctor Q.
A curiosity of early cinema and pulp, built around the escapes of the world’s most famous magician. Download the free EPUB.