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HOUDINI AND CONAN DOYLE: The Story of a Strange Friendship
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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First published March 31, 2003
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August 18, 2014
After reading "The confabulist," I had to read some non-fiction about Harry Houdini. What an amazing life he led!
Strange would be the mildest adjective I would use about the friendship between Houdini and Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle was a confirmed spiritualist, and Houdini was just as confirmed to prove spiritualism was a lot of bunk. This, naturally, caused a lively exchange between them in their letters and in person.
I especially liked the excerpts from their correspondence included in the text. This was a nice complement to the other books I read.
Strange would be the mildest adjective I would use about the friendship between Houdini and Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle was a confirmed spiritualist, and Houdini was just as confirmed to prove spiritualism was a lot of bunk. This, naturally, caused a lively exchange between them in their letters and in person.
I especially liked the excerpts from their correspondence included in the text. This was a nice complement to the other books I read.
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