Eli Marks Mystery Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Ambitious Card | 2013 | Buy |
| The Bullet Catch | 2014 | Buy |
| The Miser’s Dream | 2015 | Buy |
| The Invisible Assistant | 2016 | Buy |
| The Linking Rings | 2018 | Buy |
| The Floating Light Bulb | 2018 | Buy |
| The Zombie Ball | 2019 | Buy |
| The Last Customer | 2020 | Buy |
The Eli Marks page covers John Gaspard’s eight-book mystery series. Eli Marks is a struggling Minneapolis magician whose knowledge of illusion, sleight of hand, and misdirection makes him unexpectedly good at spotting deception — and at getting tangled up in murder investigations.
The series ran from 2013 to 2020, with each book titled after a classic magic trick: The Ambitious Card, The Bullet Catch, The Miser’s Dream, and so on. Gaspard uses the magic world — its rivalries, its secrets, and its culture of deception — as both setting and method for his mystery plots.