Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan Doyle had given up his lucrative writing career, killing off Sherlock Holmes in the process, in order to concentrate on his increasingly manic interest in Spiritualism. Houdini, who regularly conducted séances in an attempt to reach his late mother, was also infatuated with the idea of what he called a "living afterlife," though his enthusiasm came to be tempered by his ability to expose fraudulent mediums, many of whom employed crude variations of his own well-known illusions. Using previously unpublished material on the murky relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, this sometimes macabre, sometimes comic tale tells the fascinating story of the relationship between two of the most loved figures of the 20th century and their pursuit of magic and lost loved ones.
Copyright:
1997
Book Details
Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780230341586
Related ISBNs:
9780230619500
Publisher:
ST. MARTIN'S PUBLISHING GROUP
Date of Addition:
04/30/24
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in America, often in the face of spirited opposition from Conan Doyle’s indirect descendants and other third parties. Before her death in November
