Houdini's Girl Detective

Houdini's Girl Detective
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 94
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ISBN-10 : 1537143964
ISBN-13 : 9781537143965
Rating : 4/5 (965 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Houdini's Girl Detective by : Rose Mackenberg

Download or read book Houdini's Girl Detective written by Rose Mackenberg and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1920s: a time of unprecedented belief in "spiritualism", or the practice of ostensibly communicating with the spirits of the dead. Into this milieau stepped Rose Mackenberg, a private detective trained by the great magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini. Her mission: to investigate and expose "ghost racketeers" who used magic tricks and psychological manipulation to con bereaved people out of their hard-earned cash. "Houdini's Girl Detective" is an illustrated anthology of Rose Mackenberg's original 1929 newspaper article series, detailing her sometimes hair-raising adventures exposing the chicanery of the ghost racket.


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