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100 1 $aSandford, Christopher,$d1956-
245 10 $aHoudini and Conan Doyle /$cChristopher Sandford.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bDuckworth Overlook,$c2011.
300 $axi, 282 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-273) and index.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Parallel Lives -- 2. Dr. Conan Doyle and the Prince of the Air -- 3. Metamorphosis -- 4. Piercing the Veil -- 5."Saul among the Prophets" -- 6. The Blonde Witch of Lime Street -- 7. Double Exposure -- 8. Pheneas Speaks -- 9."There Is No Death."
520 $a"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 Using previously unpublished material on the murky relationship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, this sometimes macabre, sometimes comic tale tells the fascinating story of the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"--
600 10 $aHoudini, Harry,$d1874-1926.
600 10 $aDoyle, Arthur Conan,$cSir,$d1859-1930.
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600 10 $aDoyle, Arthur Conan,$d1859-1930.
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