Meech, Oliver: The Plot Thickens ©2008 Oliver Meech, Self Published Softcover, perfect bound, 9x11", 87 pages

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Comments: Oliver Meech studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford, creativity at a top London advertising agency, and magic at The Magic Circle.

Books can be purchased through Oliver's website at OliverMeech.co.uk, or direct from Oliver's LuLu Store: http://stores.lulu.com/olivermeech

Contents: (from first edition book, updated with page numbers Dec 2023):

1 Foreword (Paul Henri)
3 Introduction - Why the Plot Needs Thickening
5 What's In a Name?
6 Digital Manipulation
7 Being Converted

10 Stuff With Cards
10 Invisible Man: 2nd spectator reveals a card held by 1st spectator
14 Cardboard Birthday Cake: drawn candle on birthday cake picture is extinguished when blown on by the spectator
16 Correctional Facility - Business Card Version: A business card effect using the Out to lunch principle
18 Correctional Facility: date on the back of a signed playing card is instantly corrected
20 Not Seeing the Wood for the Trees: wrong cards spell the selection
22 Telling Your Ace from Your Elbow: ink design reveals selection

26 Stuff With Coins
26 Fish Bowl Coin Illusion: Fish on one side and bowl on other become merged when a coin is spun
28 Touching Transposition: quick transpo of coin and sugar cube
30 X-Ray Coin: an X-ray of the spectator's stomach reveals an initialed coin
34 Swig Load: Signed coin to soda can
36 Free Money in Every Pack: Signed coin is used to buy a candy bar from a vending maching, and the coin is found inside the candy bar! (Note: this is no longer available in the 2nd Edition, as it was an "already invented" item; now replaced by "Dripping Coin")

40 Stuff With the Mind
40 Bubble Image: Prediction on business card matches number seen in soap bubble
42 Speechless: A charade gone wrong to reveal the spectator's chosen card
46 Random Poetry: a clever prediction effect
50 Spin the Bottle: Magician predicts who the bottle will point to
52 Psychic Strumming: Air guitar and the Beatles!
56 I Spy: Magician determines object spotted by spectator

60 And Stuff With, Well, Stuff
60 Unwritten: A back in time effect with a business card
62 Every Flavor Jelly Beans: Jelly Beans in a canister match a prediction
64 Flaming Voodoo: paper bursts into flames
68 On With His Head!: a faulty photograph is magically fixed
70 Final Signature: another business card effect
72 Secret Service Load: Magician determines the serial number of a bill in the spectator's wallet

78 Acknowledgements
79 Author's Biography