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Houdini & Conan Doyle - The Great Magician and the Inventor of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback, Export)
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Houdini & Conan Doyle - The Great Magician and the Inventor of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback, Export)
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In the early 20th century, in the English-speaking world, Arthur
Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini were two of the most feted and famous
men alive. And their relationship is extraordinary: As strange as
it may seem Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the ultra-rational
detective Sherlock Holmes, was a believer in Spiritualism. He came
to his belief, that one could communicate with the dead, after his
son was killed in World War I, and became an expert in the field.
Harry Houdini, the world's foremost magician, was a friend of Conan
Doyle's, but was sceptical of his belief in the supernatural.
Houdini took every opportunity to use his knowledge of illusion to
expose psychics who he thought were fakes, particularly incensed by
their exploitation of grief and insecurity. Based on original
research, this sensational dual biography of two popular geniuses
conjures up the early 20th century and the fame, personality and
competing beliefs.
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