A new detective series starring Harry Houdini
San Francisco, July 1899: The young magician Harry Houdini is on tour in California with his charming wife Bess. The public is fascinated by his new escape number where he breaks free from tens of handcuffs and chains in record time.
After one of his shows, Houdini is invited to the home of a rich silk dealer in Chinatown named Ong Lin Foon. Ong, who has little trust in the police, asks Houdini to find his niece who was kidnapped upon her arrival in San Francisco. Ong fears that she has been forced to work in one of the numerous brothels of Chinatown. Encouraged by Bess who is revolted by the fate of these women, Houdini accepts to investigate the girl's disappearance. What Bess doesn't know is that the magician will also undertake a parallel secret mission for the US government.
Between the Chinese mafia, corruption and magic tricks, Metamorphosis offers a fascinating portrait of a time and a city in full economic expansion through the unique vision of the intrepid Houdini.

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N�e en 1961, Vivianne Perret est journaliste, historienne, �crivaine, sc�nariste, chroniqueuse sur RCF dans l’�mission � Le saviez-vous ? � et une insatiable polyglotte globetrotteuse. Fascin�e par les coulisses de l’Histoire, elle est une grande sp�cialiste des �tats-Unis (xix^e-xx^e si�cles). Chercheuse subventionn�e par le Fond Garlow, elle est notamment la r�f�rente en France du mus�e Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Incollable sur cette figure mythique du Far West et sur les Indiens Lakotas, elle a pouss� sa passion pour les Indiens des plaines jusqu’� apprendre le sioux. Elle a par ailleurs collabor� au catalogue du mus�e du quai Branly pour l’exposition � L’invention du sauvage � en 2011.

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