Harry Houdini's A Magician Among the Spirits, Harper and Brothers, 1924, is a practitioner's investigative account, not independent scholarship. Its strength is that Houdini brought a working magician's own knowledge of physical trickery to his investigations of mediums, including Mina Margery Crandon, for the Scientific American prize committee, a genuinely informed vantage point on how effects were staged. Its limit is that Houdini pursued these investigations as a committed public debunker with his own reputation invested in the outcome, so the book argues a case as much as it reports one.
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AuthorHarry Houdini
PublisherHarper and Brothers
Publication Year1924
Source TypeBook (practitioner)
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NotesHoudini's account of investigating mediums including Mina 'Margery' Crandon for the Scientific American prize committee.
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