Il segreto di Mordecai

Subject and script: Pasquale Ruju
Artwork: Giampiero Casertano
Cover: Angelo Stano

What a memorable final performance by the gypsy Mordecai Hildebrand Chase, a famous illusionist and hypnotist in Victorian London! Arrested on the charge of killing his assistant during the performance, he was remanded in custody and led by Inspector Herbert, an ancestor of our Bloch, to the definitive stage, the one where he would be hanged. What nobody could have imagined, though, is that Mordecai would come back to life as soon as the noose had broken his neck, or that someone would go to the trouble of eliminating – in our own present day – anyone trying to investigate the secret of Mordecai. Such as the beautiful Sondra and a certain Dylan Dog, for example