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."
title: The Magician's Wife
titlecomplete: The Magician's Wife
genres: Historical, Literature, Crime, Irish Literature, Novels, Noir, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Africa, Mystery
ratings_count: 934
places: Algeria, North Africa
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. (UK)