Goldston, Will: Sensational Tales of Mystery Men ©1929 Will Goldston, Ltd, London Hardcover, 324 pages ©1982 Magico Magazine Reprint Hardcover Limited to 500 volumes

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Comments:  First section contains stories of famous magicians; second section contains some trick explanations.

Contents (from Book ToC; updated July 2022 as I was missing contents after page 244):

9 An Introduction (Hannen Swaffer)
13 Foreword

15 The Truth About the Zancigs
24 the Tragedy of Hanco
26 When G.W. Hunter Dried Up
28 How Denny and Will Goldston Escaped Gaol
33 The Truth of Horace Goldin's Arrest
39 The Cornells and Their Ghastly Publicity Stunt
42 The Strangeness of Lafayette
48 Dante Perplexed
52 Dante's Experience in Russia
60 Muller the Mystic
63 Was Chung Ling Soo Murdered?
70 A Handcuff Escape That Went Wrong
73 Ceeley and the Naked Lady
76 Frank Van Hoven's Tragic Failure
80 Frank Van Hoven and a Fellow Artist's Wife
82 Frank Van Hoven - A Changed Man
88 Wishart and the Dead Body
91 Raymond and the Undertaker
95 What Hannen Swaffer Told the Magic Circle
102 The M.P. Who Does Magic
104 The Prince Who Stabbed His Partner
110 A Foreword on Houdini
111 Houdini
118 My First Encounter With Houdini
123 Houdini and the Magical Illusions
125 Houdini's Film Failure
128 Houdini at the Palladium
129 Houdini at Manchester
133 A Regrettable Incident
134 The Houdini Packing Case Escape
135 Houdini and the Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
138 Houdini Objects to Someone Else's Boost
140 Did Houdini Fail?
144 Is Houdini Earth Bound?
146 Is Bessie Houdini a Cheat?
152 Maurice and the Girl in the Car
155 The Great Maurice and a New Illusion
158 How Magic is Accepted in Nigeria
163 Murray - His Greatest Escape
172 How Zomah Delayed a Murder
176 Carl Hertz - The Imitator
185 The World's Cheapest Theatre
188 Hertz and His Monte Carlo Syndicate
189 Carl Hertz and the Bird Cage
193 Harry Kellar's Search for a Successor
196 Was John Nevil Maskelyne a Genius?
198 Facsimile Letter of John Nevil Maskelyne
201 Facsimile Letter of Nevil Maskelyne
204 The Mystery of My Resignation from the Magic Circle
208 David Devant - The Master Magician
213 My Impromptu Act
219 The Battle of the Pierrots
224 My Cemetery Adventure
229 An Error That Cost £1,000
234 Will Goldston's Spy Service
240 My Quickest Vanish
244 A Confession by Will Goldston

253 Part Two Trick Section
255 Contents
257 Introduction to Trick Section
259 The Newest Chinese Bat
261 The Thought Reader
263 Performing Matches
266 The Best Penetrating Coin
269 Borrowed Handkerchief Burned
271 A Mysterious Match
273 Swallowing a Solid Wand
275 Which Cigarette?
277 The Vanished Egg
279 The Expanding Egg
281 The Newest Card Changing Box
283 The G. W. Hunter Pull
285 Cigarettes to Matches
287 Flowers from a Wand
289 The Production of a Bottle from an Empty Hat
291 A Cut String
293 Card and Cigarette
297 Very Lightly and Very Tightly
300 The Inquisitive Knave
303 Martin Chapender's Method of Performing The Diminishing Cards
307 Owen Clarke’s Nest of Boxes
309 The Ace of all Magical Pillars
313 The New Matter through Matter Frame
315 Chickens from Paper
317 The Magical Dog
320 The Educated Handkerchiefs