num_pages: 240
description: In The Magician’s Wife, Cain returns to his classic themes of lust and greed. Clay Lockwood, a business executive, falls in love with the irresistible Sally Alexis, wife of a professional magician. Their story is one of the inexorable process of “wishes coming true”―the realization of which was always, for Cain, “a terrifying concept.”
language: English
title: The Magician's Wife
titlecomplete: The Magician's Wife
genres: Historical, Noir, Mystery, Irish Literature, Novels, Africa, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 934
places: North Africa, Algeria
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press