contents preface i prologue 1 chapter 1 the magic circle 2 chapter 2 the lady vanishes 6 chapter 3 dazed and confused 8 chapter 4 showdown at rileys 12 chapter 5 local hero 16 chapter 6 dial s for steiner 18 chapter 7 the boy-noble strikes back 20 chapter 8 the witchs shoppe 25 chapter 9 the sorcerers apprentice 30 chapter 10 of mice and men 32 chapter 11 the three ruffans 34 chapter 12 a brazilian odyssey 38 chapter 13 an offer we couldnt refuse 40 chapter 14 master of the craft 43 chapter 15 duality of opposites 46 chapter 16 in the bleak midwinter 49 chapter 17 the most excellent master 51 chapter 18 deus ex machina 53 chapter 19 good cop , bad cop 57 chapter 20 to catch a thief 59 chapter 22 devils advocate 62 chapter 22 memories of istanbul 64 chapter 23 face off 67 epilogue 69 preface steiner and the hypnotic cue was written to develop the corpus of internal scripts in the english department at hillside school .