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Product Details
Atria Books, October 2007
Trade Paperback, 608 pages
ISBN-10: 0743272080
ISBN-13: 9780743272087
Description
In this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to expose Harry Houdini's secret life as a spy and the stunning plot to murder the magician and destroy his legacy.
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"Kalush and Sloman appear to have raked through every known Houdini archive to produce the most comprehensive and controversial biography ever written about the man, with its contention that he was a spy who may have been murdered by a cult."
-- Tony Barrell, London Sunday Times
Helium, May 5, 2009
...admiring and later furiously denouncing him while still keeping his name and using tricks inspired by him. The Secret life of Houdini includes a number of letters and journal experts and a high quality photographs. One can tell this book is ...
Lancashire Telegraph, January 19, 2009
...wretched town?, a new book has revealed. Previously unseen extracts from his diary in the new book The Secret Life of Houdini recount a performance that he gave at the Palace Theatre in Blackburn Boulevard in October 1902. Houdini was on a ...
