Steinmeyer, Jim: The Last Greatest Magician In the World ©2011 James Steinmeyer, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Penguin Group Inc., NY Hardcover, w/dj, 375 pages ISBN: 978-1-58542-845-8 Also in softcover, perfect-bound

Comments: "Howard Thurston versus Houdini & the Battles of the the American Wizards."

Contents (Chapters, from book ToC):

1 Introduction: I Wouldn't Deceive You ..
7 One - A Bit Of Fun
20 Two - Creation
35 Three - The Moth And The Flame
49 Four - The Mystic Follies
64 Five - Disintegration Of A Person
76 Six - The Appointment
88 Seven - The Magician’S Assistant
102 Eight - Original Card Passes
116 Nine - The Reversed Girl
132 Ten - A Street Scene From The Orient
147 Eleven - The Levitation Of Princess Karnac
162 Twelve - Magicians Past And Present
176 Thirteen - Do The Spirits Return?
191 Fourteen - The Piercing Arrow
208 Fifteen - Birds Of The Air
224 Sixteen - The Girl And The Rabbit
238 Seventeen - Sawing A Woman In Half
252 Eighteen - Fire And Water
266 Nineteen - Chundra, Who Is Buried Ablve
280 Twenty - Miss Jane Thurston, She Takes After Her Dad
294 Twenty-One - Shadow People
310 Twenty-Two - Seeing Through A Woman
323 Twenty-Three - Finale: The Triple Mystery
337 Twenty-Four - The Flight Of Time

345 Acknowledgments And Sources
371 Index