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Magic
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Expected 18 May 27Harry Houdini is the greatest illusionist the world has ever known. Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of literature's most brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes.
When their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, they discover a shared obsession with spiritualism. But while Conan Doyle believes fervently in the psychic world and the promise of reunion with his dead son, Houdini is determined to demonstrate it's a cruel fraud. Which of them will be proved the genius writer of fiction or the master magician?
Based on extraordinary historical events, David Haig's play Magic asks what we're prepared to believe, and why.
When their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, they discover a shared obsession with spiritualism. But while Conan Doyle believes fervently in the psychic world and the promise of reunion with his dead son, Houdini is determined to demonstrate it's a cruel fraud. Which of them will be proved the genius writer of fiction or the master magician?
Based on extraordinary historical events, David Haig's play Magic asks what we're prepared to believe, and why.
88 pages, Paperback
Expected publication May 18, 2027
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