These are fully-illustrated with diagram sequences that cover every step in the performance. There are also instructions for performing 44 stage tricks, including the coin and glass, the Indian needle trick, and other standards. (Read Harry Houdini’s 1926 Britannica essay on magic. This book is Houdini’s own account of these exploits, supplemented with rare photographs and posters, first-hand material from periodicals and pamphlets, and behind-the-scenes revelations of some of the master’s most prized secrets: how he picked locks, how he sawed a girl in half to become twins, how he walked through a brick wall, how a girl can vanish from a sheet of plate glass without trapdoors, hoists, mirrors or other such apparatus. Harry Houdini, original name Erik Weisz, (born March 24, 1874, Budapest see Researcher’s Notedied October 31, 1926, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), American magician noted for his sensational escape acts. Houdini permitted himself to be thrown, manacled, into the Hudson River to be nailed into packing cases and lowered into the ocean to be suspended by the ankles, strait-jacketed, hundreds of feet above the ground-and in every case, he escaped easily. The most famous magician and illusionist of modern times, Houdinis own first-hand accounts of his many famous exploits, recounted by Walter. Many of his fabulous escapes, indeed, now sound more like legend than history, yet they really happened!
Harry Houdini’s fame is secure as the greatest magician of modern times.
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