title of a book

This one may be a though one since I don’t really have lots of detail.

It’s a book I’ve read in a reader digest edition couple of years ago(don’t remember which one) and I’ve been trying to find it for a long time.

It’s a detective novel about a team of cop (principal char a women) trying to find an assassin. But the peculiarity is that the assassin is a magician (the real life profession not the ones with magic) and using his skill to kill people (like picking a lock under a minute,changing look in 5 seconds, etc.)

They team up with an apprentice magician to help them try to catch the killer.

I really liked the abridged version but now I would really like to find the book.

It’ kind of hard when you are trying not to spoil the book too.

thanks Hive mind.

The Vanished Man?

Yeah I checked the story was printed in the reader digest in 2003 and the plot looks like the story I was looking for.

thanks Pike and the all mighty hive mind.

Damn my Google-Fu is strong.

It’s alright. I found an anthology from the 1950s though for Badger so suck it Pike

/flying crane googlefu kick