Sleight of Hand

Sleight of Hand is volume one of Widdershins. It introduces reoccurring main characters Sidney Malik and Harry Barber, and tells the story of their first adventure together. It is the start of the Deadly Sins arc that covers the first 7 books, with Greed as the sin of this book.

Blurb
For failed wizard Sidney Malik, it’s been a rather trying day.

Threatened with eviction, expelled from University, arrested, and accidentally crowned the King of Thieves, he’ll need more than a few magic tricks to get himself out of this.

Luckily for him, he’s attracted the attention of chain-smoking bounty hunter Harriet Barber, who’ll either save him or get him into even deeper trouble, perhaps both.

Plot Summary
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Characters

 * Sidney Malik
 * Harriet Barber
 * Thomas Macavity
 * Gren
 * Florence de Montfort
 * Greed

Cameos

 * Heinrich Wolfe
 * Jack O'Malley

Locations

 * The Royal Theatre
 * H. Barber Office
 * Greed's Cave
 * Macavity's Hideout

Website
One page of development sketches for the upcoming volume, No Rest for the Wicked.

Book
2 pages of development sketches for Sid, Harry, and Gren, and 2 pages of sketches of Sid doing magic tricks.

Release
Sleight of Hand was mostly released on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule. It ran from October 24th 2011 to February 29th 2012.

There was not a Kickstarter campaign for Sleight of Hand, though physical books were printed before the Kickstarter for No Rest for the Wicked.

Easter Eggs

 * Swift's Apothecary and Eliza Swift are seen near Harry's office.
 * Macavity's newspaper contains an ad for a phasmia-psychology service, here referred to as psychomagi. Phasmia-psychology is introduced in Hangman's Knot (Book 8).
 * An ad is seen for Tim Chiang's upcoming Chung Soo act.