Clayton Rawson (August 15, 1906 – March 1, 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. His four novels frequently invoke his great knowledge of
stage magic
Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. It ...
and feature as their fictional
detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads th ...
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
, a professional magician who runs a shop selling magic supplies. He also wrote four short stories in 1940 about a stage magician named Don Diavolo, who appears as a minor character in one of the novels featuring The Great Merlini. "Don Diavolo is a magician who perfects his tricks in a Greenwich Village basement where he is frequently visited by the harried Inspector Church of Homicide, either to arrest the Don for an impossible crime or to ask him to solve it."
Life and career
Rawson was born in
Elyria, Ohio
Elyria ( ) is a city in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area and the county seat of Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio 23 miles southwest of Cleveland. As of the 2020 cen ...
, the son of Clarence D. and Clara (Smith) Rawson. He became a magician when he was 8 years old. He married
Catherine Stone in 1929, the same year he graduated from
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
, and they had four children. He moved to Chicago and worked there as an illustrator.
His first novel, ''
Death from a Top Hat
''Death from a Top Hat'' (1938) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson. It is the first of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonist.
In a poll of 17 detective story writers ...
'', appeared in 1938.
He was one of the four founding members of the
Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.
The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday.
It presents the Edgar Award ...
, which presents the annual
Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the bes ...
s in various categories of mystery writing. All of his novels were written before the founding of this group, but in 1949 and 1967 Rawson received Special Edgar Awards for his various contributions to mystery writing and the MWA, including the founding of the organization's first newsletter, "The Third Degree". Rawson is also credited with writing the organization's first slogan: "Crime Does Not Pay—Enough".
Rawson was widely admired by his mystery-writing colleagues, and John Dickson Carr, master of "impossible crime" stories, dedicated the 1965 novel "The House at Satan's Elbow" to him. Rawson was managing editor of
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
between 1963 and his death in the United Hospital, Port Chester, N.Y., in 1971.
Rawson's burial was apparently in New York. Sometime between 2006 and 2011, his name was inscribed on his parents' double gravestone at a cemetery in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, noting the family connection and honoring a hometown boy who achieved fame. However, he is not buried there. The date of his death in this added inscription is incorrectly listed as 1970.
Works on the screen
At least two movies were made based on the Merlini books. One of them, ''
Miracles for Sale
''Miracles for Sale'' is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Tod Browning, and starring Robert Young and Florence Rice. It was Browning's final film as a director. The film is based on a locked-room mystery novel by well-known mystery writ ...
'' (1939), was based on ''Death from a Top Hat'' but had no character named Merlini. Instead,
Robert Young played the character as "The Great Morgan". The movie ''The Man Who Wouldn't Die'' (1942), starring
Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Benedict Nolan (August 11, 1902 – September 27, 1985) was an American film and television actor. Among his many roles, Nolan is remembered for originating the role of private investigator Michael Shayne in a series of 1940s B movies.
Bi ...
, was based on ''No Coffin for the Corpse'', but the Merlini character was replaced by
Michael Shayne
Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser. The character appeared in a series of seven films starring Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fo ...
, a popular fictional private eye at the time, created by the writer
Brett Halliday
Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 – February 4, 1977) is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer. Halliday is best known for the long-lived series of Michael Shayne mysteries he wrote, and later commissioned ...
.
A 30-minute pilot for a television series was created in 1951, but no further episodes were made. ''The Transparent Man'', written by Rawson, starred
Jerome Thor
Jerome Thor (January 5, 1915 — August 12, 1993) was an American actor of the stage and screen. He is best known for his work in Broadway plays from 1935 through 1946, and on American television during the 1950s. He starred as Robert Cannon in '' ...
as
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
— who in this incarnation was a stage magician — with
Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (October 25, 1927 – August 8, 2017) was an American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals ''Plain and Fancy'' (1955), ''Candide'' (1956) and ''The Music Man'' (19 ...
as his assistant Julie, and featuring
E. G. Marshall
E. G. Marshall (born Everett Eugene Grunz;Everett Eugene Grunz in Minnesota, U.S., Birth Index, 1900-1934, Ancestry.comEverett Eugene Grunz in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, accessed via Ancestry.com June 18, ...
as a criminal.
Bibliography
As Clayton Rawson
Mystery novels
* ''
Death from a Top Hat
''Death from a Top Hat'' (1938) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson. It is the first of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonist.
In a poll of 17 detective story writers ...
'' (1938)
* ''
The Footprints on the Ceiling'' (1939)
* ''
The Headless Lady
''The Headless Lady'' (1940) is a whodunnit mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson. A character in the novel, a detective story writer named Stuart Towne, has the same name as a pen name of Rawson. This is the third of four mysteries featurin ...
'' (1940)
* ''
No Coffin for the Corpse
''No Coffin for the Corpse'' (1942) is a whodunnit mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson.
It is the last of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage magician and Rawson's favorite protagonist. Merlini would however, continue to appea ...
'' (1942)
Short story collections
* ''The Great Merlini'' (1979)
** ''The Clue of the Tattooed Man''
** ''The Clue of the Broken Legs''
** ''The Clue of the Missing Motive''
** ''From Another World''
** ''Off the Face of the Earth''
** ''Merlini and the Lie Detector''
** ''Merlini and the Vanished Diamonds''
** ''Merlini and the Sound Effects Murder''
** ''Nothing Is Impossible''
** ''Miracles - All in the Day's Work''
** ''Merlini and the Photographic Clue''
** ''The World's Smallest Locked Room''
Other books
* ''Scarne on Dice'' (1945) (with
John Scarne
John Scarne (; March 4, 1903 – July 7, 1985) was an American magician and author who was particularly adept at playing card manipulation. He became known as an expert on cards and other games, and authored a number of popular books on cards, ...
)
* ''Al Baker's Pet Secrets'' (1951) (with Albert Baker)
Short stories
* ''The Clue of the Tattooed Man''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, December 1946. Story published without a solution as a competition for readers; solution published
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, March 1947. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''The Clue of the Broken Legs''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, January 1947. Story published without a solution as a competition for readers; solution published
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, April 1947. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''The Clue of the Missing Motive''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, February 1947. Story published without a solution as a competition for readers; solution published
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, May 1947. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''The Case of the Stuttering Sextant''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, March 1947. (with Baynard Kendrick)
* ''From Another World''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, June 1948. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''Pictures Don't Lie''. Leaflet published with a jigsaw puzzle (1949). Reprinted as ''Merlini and the Photographic Clue''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, August 1969. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''Off the Face of the Earth''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, September 1949. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''Merlini and the Lie Detector''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, July 1955. Story published without a solution as a competition for readers; solution published
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, October 1955. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''Merlini and the Vanished Diamonds''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, October 1955. Story published without a solution as a competition for readers; solution published
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, December 1955. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''Merlini and the Sound Effects Murder''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, December 1955. Story published without a solution as a competition for readers; solution published
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, March 1956. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''Nothing Is Impossible''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, July 1958. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
. Reprinted in
The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapes, edited by Hans S Santesson
* ''Miracles - All in the Day's Work''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, October 1958. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
* ''The World's Smallest Locked Room''.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fict ...
, August 1971. Collected in
The Great Merlini
The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as in a dozen short stories.
"His ...
Uncollected short stories
* ''Dotty Joins a Lodge''. College Life, April 1931
* ''Dotty Has Heart Trouble''. College Life, May 1931
* ''Dotty Gets Her Man''. College Life, Summer 1931
* ''Dotty Hunts Pirate Gold''. College Life, September 1931
* ''Dotty Back to Bloop!''. College Life, October 1931
* ''Dotty’s Diary''. College Life, October 1932
* ''Dotty at a Night Club''. College Life, December 1932
* ''The Deadly Clown''. Detective Fiction Weekly 14 September, 21 September, 28 September, 5 October, 12 October and 19 October 1940
As The Great Merlini
Non-fiction
* ''How to Entertain Children with Magic You Can Do'' (1963)
* ''The Golden Book of Magic: Amazing Tricks for Young Magicians'' (1964)
As Stuart Towne
Short story collections
* ''Death out of Thin Air'' (1941)
** ''Death from the Past: Ghost of the Undead''
** ''Death from the Unseen: Death Out of Thin Air''
* ''Death from Nowhere'' (1943)
** ''Act I: The Claws of Satan''
** ''Act II: The Enchanted Dagger''
* ''The Magical Mysteries of Don Diavolo'' (2005)
** ''Ghost of the Undead''
** ''Death from Thin Air''
** ''The Claws of Satan''
** ''The Enchanted Dagger''
** ''Stand-In for a Kill''
** ''Mr. Mystery''
** ''The Man with the Radio Mind''
** ''Ace of Death''
** ''The Man with X-Ray Eyes''
Short stories
* ''Ghost of the Undead''. Red Star Mystery, June 1940. Collected in
Death out of Thin Air
* ''Stand-in for a Kill''. Detective Fiction Weekly, 8 June 1940. Collected in
The Magical Mysteries of Don Diavolo
* ''Mr Mystery''. Detective Fiction Weekly, 3 August 1940. Collected in
The Magical Mysteries of Don Diavolo
* ''Death Out of Thin Air''. Red Star Mystery, August 1940. Collected in
Death out of Thin Air
* ''The Claws of Satan''. Red Star Mystery, October 1940. Collected in
Death from Nowhere
* ''Enchanted Dagger''. Red Star Mystery, December 1940. Collected in
Death from Nowhere
* ''The Man with the Radio Mind''. Detective Fiction Weekly, 2 August 1941. Collected in
The Magical Mysteries of Don Diavolo
* ''The Ace of Death''. Detective Fiction, 24 January 1942. Collected in
The Magical Mysteries of Don Diavolo
* ''The Man with X-Ray Eyes''. New Detective Magazine, March 1944. Collected in
The Magical Mysteries of Don Diavolo
Uncollected short stories
* ''The Murder from the Grave''. This story was announced for publication in Red Star Mystery, February 1941, which was never published
Tricks
As Clayton Rawson
* ''The Card from Hell''. The Jinx No. 46, 1938
* ''The Camel and the Needle's Eye''. The Jinx No. 46, 1938
* ''The Force That Couldn't Be Done''. The Jinx No. 46, 1938
* ''Behind That Door!'' The Jinx, Summer Extra, 1938
* ''Puzzle From a Top Hat'' The Jinx, Summer Extra, 1938
* ''Sixth Finger Card Rise''. The Jinx No. 78, 1940
* ''Mass Production'' The Jinx No. 110, 1940
* ''Ghost Writer''. The Jinx No. 147, 1941
* ''Scrambled Thoughtwaves''. The Phoenix No. 3, 1942
* ''Card Switch''. The Phoenix No. 3, 1942
* ''Out of the Smoke''. The Phoenix No. 11, 1942 (with Dave Spindell). Reprinted in ''The Best in Magic'' (1956)
* ''No Corpse for the Coffin''. The Phoenix No. 14, 1942
* ''Twist for Ring and String''. The Phoenix No. 25, 1942
* ''The Cockeyed Cards''. ''Prepared Cards and Accessories: Miracle Methods No. 3'' (1942). Reprinted in ''The Living End'' (1972)
* ''The Force That Couldn't Be Done''. ''Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks'' (1943)
* ''Slate Sleights''. The Phoenix No. 35, 1943
* ''The Backward Ghost''. The Phoenix No. 37, 1943
* ''A Sucker Bet''. The Phoenix No. 50, 1943
* ''Page Force''. The Phoenix No. 81, 1945 (with Ronald B Edwards)
* ''Detail Does It''. The Phoenix No. 86, 1945 (with Kolmar)
* ''The Mental Broadcast''. ''My Best'' (1945)
* ''The Force That Couldn't Be''. ''Card Control''(1946) (with Arthur H Buckley)
* ''Double-Lift Deceptions''. The Phoenix No. 100, 1946. Reprinted in ''The Best in Magic'' (1956)
* ''1: Right in front of Your Nose!''. The Phoenix No. 100, 1946. Reprinted in ''The Best in Magic'' (1956)
* ''2: Magic Taught in One Easy Lesson''. The Phoenix No. 100, 1946. Reprinted in ''The Best in Magic'' (1956)
* ''3: Stream-Lined Hypnotism''. The Phoenix No. 100, 1946. Reprinted in ''The Best in Magic'' (1956)
* ''4: The Absent-Minded Spectator''. The Phoenix No. 100, 1946. Reprinted in ''The Best in Magic'' (1956)
* ''Strip Tease''. The Phoenix No. 124, 1947
* ''Everyone Take a Card''. The Phoenix No. 129, 1947
* ''The Force That Couldn't Be Done''. The Phoenix No. 133, 1947
* ''Under the Table''. The Phoenix No. 170, 1949
* ''In One Second Flat''. The Phoenix No. 196, 1950
* ''Magic Scheme''. ''Scarne on Card Tricks'' (1950)
* ''The Impossible Force''. ''The Secret Ways of Al Baker'' (1951)
* ''Rawson Card Reading''. ''Tarbell Course in Magic - Volume 6'' (1954)
* ''The 90 Per Cent Perfect Change''. ''Professional Card Magic'' (1961) (with Cliff Green)
* ''Etcetera''. The Pallbearers Review Vol. 2, No. 10 (1967) (with Fred G Taylor and Jack Avis)
* ''Thumb Count Double Lift''. The Pallbearers Review Vol. 3, No. 11 (1968)
* ''Magic Shuffle Variation''. ''The Living End'' (1972)
* ''Name Your Poison''. ''The Living End'' (1972)
* ''Further Ideas''. The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9, No. 6 (1974) (with
Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literatureespecially the writings of Lewis ...
)
* ''Date Sense''. The Compleat Magick Vol. II, Issue 161 (with Walter B Gibson and Jerry Ross) (1976)
* ''Rawson Transit''. The Fred Braue Notebooks, Issue 4 (1985)
* ''Simon Says''. ''Self-Working Close-up Card Magic'' (with Karl Fulves)
* ''Little Wonder Thought Projector''. The Fred Braue Notebooks, Issue 8 (1997)
* ''Clayton Rawson''. Magic Page by Page (2011) (with Patrick Page)
As The Great Merlini
* ''Name Your Poison''. The Jinx No. 132, 1941
Works featuring Clayton Rawson as a character
Short stories
* ''The 51st Sealed Room'' by Robert Arthur. Collected in Tantalising Locked Room Mysteries (1982), edited
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References
External links
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