From the award-winning legend of speculative fiction, "a witty sendup of the detective story" with "a richness of invention that doffs a hat to Dickens" ( Chicago Tribune ).
They suspect that Lazare is a con.
The police, however, have a different opinion.
The predictions arrive with unerring accuracy, as if the invention were imbued with some sort of wondrous sorcery.
At a fashionable salon, Parisians line up to have their fortunes told by Ric Lazare\'s amazing machine.
From the award-winning legend of speculative fiction, "a witty sendup of the detective story" with "a richness of invention that doffs a hat to Dickens" ( Chicago Tribune )