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An edition of Masters of mystery (2011)

Masters of mystery

the strange friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini

1st ed.
  • 6 Want to read

"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 Using previously unpublished material on the murky relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, this sometimes macabre, sometimes comic tale tells the fascinating story of the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"--

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Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
2013, St. Martin's Press
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Houdini and Conan Doyle
2012, Duckworth
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Houdini & Conan Doyle
2011, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
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Houdini And Conan Doyle
2011, Duckworth Publishing
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Masters of Mystery: the Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
2011, St. Martin's Press
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Masters of mystery: the strange friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
793.8092/2
Library of Congress
GV1545.H8 S26 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 281 p., [10] p. of plates :
Number of pages
281

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25131568M
ISBN 10
0230619509
ISBN 13
9780230619500
LCCN
2011022076
OCLC/WorldCat
706021015

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OL16342263W

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