Harry Houdini: Super Spy

I'm going to try to get caught up from taking Monday as a blogging holiday (and some of Friday too come to think of it), so there'll be extra posting tonight. First up, a couple of miscellaneous items.

Hard Case Crime T-shirts



World of Strange apparel is offering T-shirts featuring the covers to Hard Case Crime novels. Now if we could only get some posters too...

The Secret Life of Houdini



I don't know if it'll be as cool as Houdini fighting a killer robot, but Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull writer Jeff Nathanson is working on an adaptation of Larry Sloman's controversial Houdini biography (which implied that Houdini was actually a British spy). Nathanson describes his version of the magician as a cross between Indiana Jones and Sherlock Holmes, which - mixed with The Prestige - sounds like a winning combination to me.