Lawyer William Clarin is not the attorney who is known as The Magician because he can make charges go away. He only pulls rabbits out of his hat in his spare time.
But visiting Chicago gangsters don't know that in this madcap novella.
The story starts in Hobart, Tasmania in 1974, hardly the time and place you’d expect to find gangsters.
But everyone knows the opening of Australia’s first legal casino in Sandy Bay some months before would come to no good. The wagons are circling, and not a cowboy nor Indian is in sight, only large swaggering men in dark suits, dark shirts, dark hats and white ties.
This book was previously published as Scrutiny on the Bounty but it has had a facelift. It is now is the first in the Funny Capers DownUnder series but it has a story all of its own.
When William fails to get Mr Biggi off a charge of driving on the wrong side of the road, he has to leg it to escape the mob's wrath.
He gets a job as a magician on an ocean liner in order to escape Tasmania, and finds he's not alone.
Find out how the legend of Mad Bill begins!
The Wrong Magician
