Description:
After Metamorphosis, this is the next exciting adventure of the famed magician Houdini.
October 1900, Berlin. Houdini has become the star of magic with his "king of handcuffs" routine and has set out to conquer Europe. After London, he arrives in Berlin with his wife and assistant, Jim. He is slated to perform at the prestigious Wintergarten. But, the evening before the first show, Herr Krupp, the "king of the canon", invites them to a private show in his sumptuous Villa Hügel. Difficult to refuse when the guest of honor is the Kaiser himself...
As the evening progresses, Herr Krupp and the Kaiser amuse themselves by prodding Houdini to attempt to open a reputedly inviolable safe, so as to end the evening with a splash! But when they open the safe to show the magician the inside, they are horrified to discover the body of a young woman dead from asphyxiation.
Von Hüllessem, the Berlin chief of Police in charge of the investigation will ask for Houdini's help in order to understand how the safe, for which only Herr Krupp had the password, could have been opened and by whom...
