Escape Artist An Edna Ferber Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Ed Ifkovic Christine Williams Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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In 1904, the future best-selling writer Edna Ferber, then a 19-year-old fledgling reporter in Wisconsin, teams up with famed escape artist Harry Houdini to solve the baffling murder of a girl who has mysteriously disappeared from a locked room at the local high school.
Edna Ferber is a reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin, Crescent, an occupation that many townspeople, including her own family, consider scandalous for a proper young girl.
It's a troubling summer for her. Her home life is in disorder, though she is dedicated to her blind father. Her mother and sister dislike her walking the streets as a reporter. Even the newsroom has become a hostile environment, with a new city editor determined to undermine her. Then she gets to interview the famous escape artist Harry Houdini, who is in town visiting old friends. Houdini, as Ehrich Weiss, spent his boyhood years in the small town.
When Frana Lempke, a beautiful young German high-school girl, disappears and is soon discovered murdered, the unusual crime baffles the local police because Frana mysteriously disappeared from a locked room at the high school.
Edna asks Houdini for help in solving the murder. Houdini takes a liking to Edna and agrees to help. But as Edna pursues the story, alienating any number of people, she senses that she is being followed. Piecing together the clues, she comes to see that her own life in the small town is unraveling. As the future best-selling writer starts to solve the crime, she understands that her involvement will impact her life forever.
A Poisoned Pen Press Mystery.
Escape Artist An Edna Ferber Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Ed Ifkovic Christine Williams Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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Escape Artist An Edna Ferber Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Ed Ifkovic Christine Williams Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
Single sentence summary The year is 1904 and Edna wants to be a reporter, which isn't seen a very feminine goal for a girl but when finds herself caught up with Harry Houdini and a high school girl has gone missing she might get her lucky break and become a real reporter.
I enjoyed this historical mystery. I found the characters engaging and believable. Edna wants more for herself that being a housewife and believes herself to be too plain to attract a man's attention anyway. She runs into Harry Houdini who is visiting friends in her little town. Soon afterward a young girl from the high school turns up missing and Edna asks Houdini to help her figure out how she left the high school without anyone seeing. Escape Artist had an interesting setup with a variety of characters that I founding engaging.
I wasn't sure what I would make of this book. I've read books with women in the 1900-1950s and the male character tend to be written at the same. They are overbearing, egotistical jerks but this book presented only one character that way. Instead, the male characters were varied and while I felt that sometimes they behaved in a way to humor Edna, they also behaved in a believable and practical manner. Edna writes about the social things going on her little town without touching on crime or politics, which worked for me. Politics may not have been ladylike but reporting on someone woman's fund raiser or something seemed reasonable to have a young female reporter write on.
I enjoyed the mystery aspect of this book and it kept me guessing for a quite a while. I thought this was a great book overall and looking forward to reading more about Edna's adventures (if there are more). 4.25 Stars.
I received this as an ebook from the publisher via netgalley.
Escape Artist by Ed Ifkovic
Poisoned Pen Press, 2011
241 pages
Mystery; Historical
4/5 stars
Source Received an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I wanted to read this mystery because I saw that the sleuth was Edna Ferber, renowned author of Show Boat, Giant, and other American classics and that it featured magician Harry Houdini, who played a role in a Molly Murphy mystery by Rhys Bowen.
Before the mystery is even revealed, several interesting threads are presented. Edna Ferber is a girl reporter in the early twentieth century (1904); besides the prejudices she receives due to gender, she is also Jewish and receives various anti-Semitic slurs too. Then there is her family life with a blind dying father, domineering mother, and conflict with her older sister who disapproves of Edna's unfeminine profession. Furthermore Edna wants more out of life than her small town (she's like Belle!) and she bristles when her plainness is overlooked for the beauty of other girls.
Needless to say, the mystery is not always the main focus as a rich historical fabric is woven for the reader, skillfully juggling the main threads. I didn't know much about Ferber beyond her authorship of Giant nor do I know this time period so it was easy to lose myself in the flow of Ifkovic's writing and set my mind to deducing the murderer (which I was unsuccessful at doing but so what?)
Overall I would classify this as more of a historical novel that happens to feature a mystery because of the long sections that don't focus on the mystery; for the lover of historical fiction, though, this is quite a delight.
Holy handcuffs Houdini! Grab a glass of sarsaparilla down at the corner soda fountain and dive right into Escape Artist! What's not to like about this premise?! Houdini in small town America...Appleton Wisconsin to be exact, and that's where we find the young, and struggling girl reporter Edna Ferber. Who knew back in 1904 where these two people would go in the "real" world?
Escape Artist is just plain old fashioned fun. I hated to see the mystery solved and the book end. Author Ed Ifkovic really captures the joys and the frustrations of small town, turn of the "other" century America. Ifkovic places young Frana Lempke in the proverbial locked room and yet, she disappeared. Not only did she disappear, Appleton's wanna-be reporter, well sleuth in this case, Edna Ferber, finds the body.
I won't detail much more of the plot, as I think that's a disservice to review readers. Ferber and Houdini are well fleshed out people in a fictional scenario that's brilliantly plotted and executed by Ifkovic. The author places Edna in an unhappy home, her family life is at best miserable. A cold mother and a diva sister do nothing but frame the good parts of that family. The shining thread in this Ferber family is the sweet and yet complex relationship that Edna and her failing father, Jacob share. These two souls tug at your heart and make you wish everything could be better for them both. That's what really stood out for me in this book, the loving relationship that Ifkovic gave us in this father-daughter relationship.
When I clicked the last page of this e-galley, I wanted more. I hope the author plans to give us another chapter from the life of Edna Ferber, reporter extraordinaire!
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars just for the real fun of the read!!
This e-galley was provided to me by the publisher via NetGalley and in no way affected my review.
Interesting concept and fun for someone from Appleton to read. Writing is adequate.
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