Clayton Rawson
Merlini the Great is a pseudonym of Clayton Rawson, an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician.
Books
Death from a top hat
1962
ISBN 9780930330446- No cover
The Locked Room Reader
1968
ISBN 9780394433738 
Mysterious Obsession: Memoirs of a Compulsive Collector
2019
ISBN 9781613161760
Don Diavolo
2001
ISBN 9782702430354
The Magical Mysteries of Don Diavolo
2005
ISBN 9781552465325
Death Out of Thin Air
2012
ISBN 9781786698353
The footprints on the ceiling
1939
ISBN 9780839825432
The headless lady
1940
ISBN 9780839825449
Headless Lady
1940
ISBN 9781453256916
No coffin for the corpse
1942
ISBN 9780930330743
The great Merlini
1979
ISBN 9780839825463
Pas de bière pour le cadavre
1994
ISBN 9782702424889
Le grand Merlini
1998
ISBN 9782702428788
Death from Nowhere
2012
ISBN 9781453256893
Footprints on the Ceiling
2012
ISBN 9781453256930
Great Merlini
2012
ISBN 9781453256824