The magician and the spirits : Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead /
"Famed illusionist Harry Houdini embarks on a quest to investigate spiritual phenomena and the possibility of communication with those on the "other side.""--
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New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Harry and Bess Houdini, spirit mediums
- Dealings with the dead
- The mother's boy
- The torch bearer
- "In the light"
- Manifestations!
- A menace to health and sanity
- Science and sincerity
- It takes a flimflammer to catch a flimflammer
- The end (or is it?)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Picture credits
- Index.