Chapman, Greg: The Devil's Staircase ©2014 Greg Chapman Hardcover, w/dj, 223 pages

Image courtesy eBay seller Davizve-0

Comments: Illustrated. An in-depth examination of full deck stacks and routines.

Contents (from book ToC):

7 Foreword (Sal Piacente)
9 Introduction

13 1. Tools
14 1.1 Stacks and Arrangements
14 1.2 Overhand Shuffe and Overhand Run-ups
15 1.3 Memory and Estimation
17 1.4 Bottom Card Glimpse
18 1.5 Faro Shuffle
20 1.6 Jokers

23 2. From a Shuffled Deck
25 2.1 Snap Transposition
35 2.2 Backfire
45 2.3 Thought of Card Across
53 2.4 Countless
59 2.5 Searchers Undone

65 3. My Stack
74 3.1 Stack Order
75 3.2 Arranging the Stack From New Deck Order
77 3.3 Properties of the Stack
82 3.4 Returning to New Deck Order
83 3.5 Shuffling the Stack

85 4. Stack Work
86 4.1 Jokers as Substitution Cards
87 4.2 Single Card Displacements
89 4.3 Switchable Pairs
91 4.4 Work in the Cards
92 4.5 Fixed Floating Key Cards
94 4.6 Estimation
102 4.7 Stack Friendly Effects
104 4.8 Out Faro Sequence

109 5. Memorized Deck Effects
111 5.1 Purloined Simple
117 5.2 Loading of the Memorized Deck
129 5.3 Miles Ahead
135 5.4 One Card Missing & the 53rd Card Concept
143 5.5 A Stacked Sandwich

149 6. Overhand Run-Up Shuffle Systems
151 6.1 Stacking Four Cards: any number of players
153 6.2 Stacking Five Cards: any number of players
157 6.3 Stacking Multiple Hands
161 6.4 Stacking a Fifth Card in a Double-duke Scenario
162 6.5 Bringing the Slug into Position
165 6.6 Four Seconds on Fourth
169 6.7 Stacking Any Combinaton

173 7. Using the Overhand Run-Up With a Full Deck Stack
177 7.1 Aces for Aronson: Five card set up
180 7.2 Aces ofr Aronson: Aronson stack

187 8. Built-In Effects
189 8.1 Lucky Sevens: Two versions
195 8.2 Dealing the Aces
197 8.3 Four of a Kind Locations: Queens, threes, fours
199 8.4 Finding Any Number
202 8.5 Four-of-a-Kind Locations: Sixes, sevens, eights
204 8.6 Texas Hold'em Ideas

213 9. Encore
213 9.1 Dirty Tactics

222 One Last Thing

223 Acknowledgements