‘Fortune Telling’ and Handcuff Secrets, by Harry Houdini

From the publisher’s website: Fortune Telling (The Houdini Hearings) A must for any Houdini fan! This amazing book contains page after page of colourful first-person testimony from Houdini, sparring with the world of spiritualists as well as sometimes-sceptical congressmen during the 1920s fortune-telling hearings in Washington D.C. Absolutely fascinating...a new light on Houdini! Handcuff Secrets Houdini reveals secrets of his lockpicking, handcuff escapes, straitjacket techniques, and more! An unbelievable treasure-trove of Houdini's methods and Houdini's stories of his imitators. Dozens of illustrations. (Handcuff Secrets is also available as part of the CD set Houdini Unbound: The Houdini Research Collection from the Miracle Factory.) See www.miraclefactory.net for further details of both titles.

Review by Tom Ruffles

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‘Fortune Telling’ and Handcuff Secrets, by Harry Houdini