The Houdini Specter
Author: Daniel Stashower
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780739423042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Houdini is asked to solve a murder that took place at a seance. Did they contact the wealthy industrialist?
Author: Daniel Stashower
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780739423042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Houdini is asked to solve a murder that took place at a seance. Did they contact the wealthy industrialist?
Author: Daniel Stashower
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
Published: 2012-06-12
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0857686216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Will Harry Houdini’s penchant for exposing the trickery of mediums get him into a deeper mystery than he can handle? Still struggling to make a name for himself in turn-of-the-century New York, Harry Houdini sees an opportunity for glory in exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig. But to do so, he must work out how the medium managed to conjure a “spirit” while tied to a chair by Houdini himself—and how the apparition was able to stab an audience member to death and then disappear. The Houdini Specter is the third thrilling adventure in a Sherlock Holmes-inspired series starring the legendary magician.
Author: Daniel Stashower
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 085768292X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The world’s most famous escape artist must uncover why his master’s illusion went horribly wrong in this “charming” historical mystery series from an Edgar Award–winning author (New York Times) In turn-of-the-century New York City, struggling young performer Harry Houdini is working for the renowned magician Kellar. One night his master’s astonishing illusion the Floating Lady goes horribly wrong, with Kellar’s levitating assistant apparently plunging to her death. Houdini, along with his wife Bess and brother Dash, must solve the mystery and figure out how the young lady died from drowning rather than a fatal fall.
Author: Robert Kraske
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780590053747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This biography recounts the life of Harry Houdini from his boyhood through his years as an escape artist and master showman.
Author: Daniel Stashower
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 2012-02-24
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0857686194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New York City in 1897 and young escapologist Harry Houdini is struggling to get the recognition he craves from the ruthless entertainment industry. When toy tycoon Branford Wintour is found murdered in his Fifth Avenue mansion, detectives call upon Houdini to help solve this mysterious crime. When Harry and his brother Dash reach the scene of the murder, they discover that Wintour was killed seemingly by a magic trick...
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-06-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 080279646X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the life and career of Harry Houdini, whose dramatic style and amazing physical abilities made him one of the most famous magicians and contortionists of all time. Reprint.
Author: Joe Posnanski
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1501137255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joe Posnanski enters the colorful world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans to explore the illusionist’s impact on global culture—and why his legacy endures to this day. Nearly a century after Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, he feels as modern and alive as ever. The name Houdini still leaps to mind whenever we witness a daring escape. The baby who frees herself from her crib? Houdini. The dog who vanishes and reappears in the neighbor’s garden? Houdini. Every generation produces new disciples of the magician, from household names in magic like David Copperfield and David Blaine to countless other followers whose lives have been transformed by the power of Houdini. In rural Pennsylvania, a thirteen-year-old girl finds the courage to leave a violent home after learning that Houdini ran away to join the circus; she eventually becomes the first female magician to saw a man in half on television. In Australia, an eight-year-old boy with a learning impediment feels worthless until he sees an old poster of Houdini advertising “Nothing on earth can hold Houdini prisoner,” and begins his path to becoming that nation’s most popular magician. In California, an actor and Vietnam War veteran finds purpose in his life by uncovering the secrets of his hero. But the unique phenomenon of Houdini was always more than his death-defying stunts or his ability to escape handcuffs and straitjackets. It is also about the power of imagination and self-invention. His incredible transformation from Ehrich Weiss, humble Hungarian immigrant and rabbi’s son, into the self-named Harry Houdini has won him a slice of immortality. No one has withstood the test of time quite like Houdini. Fueled by Posnanski’s personal obsession with the magician—and magic itself—The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini is a poignant odyssey of discovery, blending biography, memoir, and first-person reporting to trace Houdini’s metamorphosis into an iconic figure who has inspired millions.
Author: Raymund Fitzsimons
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kathryn Kilby Borland
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1991-04-30
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0689714769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of Harry Houdini concentrating on his earlier years and the training that made him a master magician and escape artist.
Author: Robert Kraske
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780606199216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A brief biography of Ehrich Weiss, who gained renown as Harry Houdini, master magician and escape artist.