McLachlan, John: Goldfinger: Stand Up Coin Mysteries ©2012 1st Ed, John McLachlan e-Book, 112 pages Available from Lybrary.com

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Comments: John McLachlan, and six of his magic colleagues in Toronto, present a 112 page eBook of coin magic to help you enchant and entertain. They begin with a dozen relatively easy Cool Moves which can be used almost immediately for impromptu quick effects at the coffee shop or in small groups. These are also used as building blocks for the more than a dozen Performance Pieces. (It is assumed the reader knows basic coin moves such as palming and your time is not wasted by repeating what most magicians know.) There are, however, some astonishing moves described in detail. Learn from the styles of the seven performers who contributed to the book and who teach you their methods for Three Fly with regular silver dollars, a Hopping Halves type effect with ordinary coins, an unbelievable coin change, a scenario about the type of acrobats used in Bond films, a nightmare in which you are constantly one coin short and a compelling finish as dreamland approaches as well as other mysteries.

Contents:

6 Cool Moves
6 Victory Vanish
10 Victory Coin Switch
11 Victory Click Pass (Two methods)
13 Thumb Down Coin Production
16 Push-off Shuttle Pass
17 Shuttle Touchdown
19 Tip-up Coin Switch
22 Twirl Change
23 A Pretty Spellbound Change (James Alan)
25 Speed Vanish (Luiz Castro)
26 Castro Switch (Luiz Castro)

31 Performance Pieces
31 Two Coins in the Hand
35 As Time Goes By – Words for Two Coins
37 Coin through Glass
42 Parkour Monsieur
50 All that Glitters
59 Start and Finish with Silver Dollars (James Alan)
65 The Five-Second Coin Trick (Ariel Frailich)
71 Magneto (David Peck)
76 The Center Folds (David Peck)
80 Three Fly (Luiz Castro)
83 Three Coin Change (Luiz Castro)
90 Charon's Change (Mysterion)
93 One Coin Short (Phil Pivnik)
98 As Dreamland Approaches
112 Bibliography