Snyder, Lee: Pleasing Deceptions ©1993 Lee Snyder Softcover, comb-bound, 253 pages

Image courtesy Don's Magic and Books

Comments: With Tony Miller. Reviewed in The New Tops July 1993.

Contents:

iv Preface

5 Part One Openers
6 Tomb of the Unknown Card
10 Miser's Reverie
- Sling Load
18 Three Coins in the Plastic
26 Voodoo Economics
27 Close-up Pad from LaBrea
- Just Another Pretty Palm
- Spread Load
37 Alferd Packer's Coin
- Waisting Away
45 The Disguised Card
49 Strength Stunt
50 The MacGuffin Card Trick
51 Tongue of Newt
54 Suction
55 Power of Balance
56 A Fan Discovery

61 Part Two Techniques
63 Lazy Magic
65 Miller's Variable Placement
74 Variations of the MVP
- To Bring a Card to Second-from-The-Top Position
- To Sell the MVP
- To Bring a Card to the Bottom
- To Control Several Cards at Once
- To Palm a Card
83 Lever Palm
86 Force at the Table
68 More Force at the Table
89 An Ambitious Card Move
90 A Display Move
92 Smoking Spirit
93 First Contact
94 A Wallet Palm
96 The Shuffle Collection
97 The Thought-of Card
100 Two Strange A Change
- Starfire
- Vincent Fan-Go
102 Rising Card interlude
103 FCI A Psychological Faise Count

107 Part Three More Close-Up
103 Poke Salad
114 Openly Predestined
- Down and Out Force
123 Metempsychosis
128 The Best Magic
133 A Carry-Out Sandwich
136 The Spectator Meets the Princess
146 The Yuppie Card
- Drawbridge Pass
- Cattywhampus Double Lift and Double Lift Replacement
- Slippery Load
168 The Burning Deck
169 My Favorite Card
170 Gone Shopping
172 Rubber Coin

177 Part Four: Variations
179 The One-Dollar Challenge
185 Back Track
- Drop Pass
- A Retention Vanish
- A Coin Change
- Another Retention Vanish
185 The Role Model
200 A Visit to the Magic Shop
- Easy Pop Out
213 Part Five: Not So Close-Up
215 Spot Check
222 The Freud Test
228 Photographing a Thought
232 Improving Your Livestock Vanish
239 An Opening Cane
242 Heavy Ink
243 Cards in the Church
251 Surreal Coin To Pocket