Harry Houdini is framed for spying and stealing sensitive papers from the Prince of Wales. Sherlock Holmes decides to help. Watson is thick. Lestrade is wildly out of character and believes Houdini to be an "ectoplasmic man" who can walk through walls AND THAT'S HOW HE STOLE THE PAPERS. That, and...
In 1897, New York City teems with hustlers and freshly made millionaires, fine artists and con artists, criminals and immigrants. Among them is a rabbi's son who calls himself Houdini. He is struggling to make it in the brutal entertainment business when detectives call on him to attempt the most...
Now You See Her...Now You Don'tIt's difficult to gain the public's attention in turn-of-the-century New York--even if you are the greatest escape artist the world has ever seen. So the young performer who calls himself Harry Houdini must be content, for the time being, working for the internation...
Who will not embrace the opportunity to look upon the NATION’S HEAD, the NATION’S DELIVERER, the PEOPLE’S FAVORITE and FRIEND?Remember, this is the last chance in New York.—advertisement for Barnum’s American Museum, February 21, 1861EARLY ON THE MORNING of February 21, even as David Bookstaver m...
HARRY SAID AS WE MADE OUR WAY across 21st Street. “Why should anyone wish to break into a dead man’s offices?” “If we knew that,” I said, “we’d also know why someone wanted to kill him in the first place.” “Perhaps there was something in that office that our murderer does not wish for us to see.”...
“That bloke ain’t going nowhere,” said the guard with a laugh, leaving us alone in the empty block of cells. Peering through the small barred window in the door of Houdini’s cell, I found the magician bound as securely as ever and looking, if possible, even more dispirited and piteous than when I...