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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xi, 281 pages, [10] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean text. Front free endpaper (blank) lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. "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 seances 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 Using previously unpublished material on the murky relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, this sometimes macabre, sometimes comic tale…
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- Title Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
- Author Christopher Sandford
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 281
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, New York
- Date 2011-11
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780230619500 / 0230619509
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Magicians - United States, Authors, Scottish - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011022076
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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