Randi, James & Bert Randolph Sugar: Presenting Houdini, His Life and Art ©1976 Bert Randolph Sugar; Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover, w/dj, 191 pages ISBN: 978-0448125466

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Comments: "The World's Most Mystifying Magician; Greatest Jailbreaking Escape Artist; Debunker of False Spiritualists."

Contents:

9 Foreword by Bert Randolph Sugar
11 Foreword by Randi

15 Part I The Bill
16 Act 1. Little Ehrich the Great
27 Act 2. The Houdinis
43 Act 3. Rising Star over Europe
60 Act 4. American Conquest
83 Intermission
94 Act 5. Sorrow, Straitjackets, and Vanishing Elephants
110 Act 6. Silent Movies and Spirit Mediums
136 Act 7. The Closing
151 Curtain Calls

157 Part II A Peek Behind The Curtain
158 Houdini the Showman
162 The Handcuff King
169 Slander in Germany
171 To Restrain the Murderously Insane
175 “Failure Means a Drowning Death”
179 The Chinese Water Torture Cell

186 Acknow