A Modern Wizard
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Description
Rodrigues Ottolengui's 1894 novel, A Modern Wizard, turns on a courtroom struggle over a man whose powers look like magic and may be crime. Its early chapters follow a lawyer and his client, an investigator named Jack Barnes, a wizard's trick, and a surrender by Dr. Medjora, before the case moves into prosecution and defense, damaging testimony, and closing arguments. The structure is that of a trial novel, with each side building its case in turn.
Ottolengui, already known for tales of crime and evidence, uses the trial to test how far science, suggestion, and showmanship can explain the uncanny. The wizard at the center remains a puzzle: fraud, hypnotist, or something stranger. Readers who enjoy Victorian detective fiction with a touch of the occult will find the courtroom scenes sharp and the mystery well sustained.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 604 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |