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The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real Life

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Title: The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real Life

Note: Part 1: Detective stories from real life
Part 2: True stories of modern magic

Contents: P. H. Woodward
Adventures in the Secret Service of the Post-Office Department
An Erring Shepherd
An Aspirant for Congress
The Fortune of Seth Savage
A Wish Unexpectedly Gratified
An Old Game Revived
A Formidable Weapon
Andrew Lang
Saint-Germain the Deathless
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Legend
The Valet's History
The Valet's Master
Original Papers in the Case of Roux De Marsilly
M. Robert-Houdin [After whom Harry Houdini named himself]
A Conjurer's Confessions
Self-Training
"Second Sight"
The Magician Who Became an Ambassador
Facing the Arab's Pistol
David P. Abbott
Fraudulent Spiritualism Unveiled
A Doctor of the Occult
How the Tricks Succeeded
The Name of the Dead
Mind Reading in Public
Some Famous Exposures
Hereward Carrington
More Tricks of "Spiritualism"
"Matter through Matter"
Deception Explained by the Science of Psychology
Anonymous
How Spirits Materialize

Contributor: Abbott, David P. (David Phelps), 1863-1934

Contributor: Carrington, Hereward, 1880-1959

Contributor: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Contributor: Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871

Contributor: Train, Arthur Cheney, 1875-1945

Contributor: Woodward, P. H. (Patrick Henry), 1833-1917

Editor: Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934

EBook No.: 2031

Published: Jan 1, 2000

Downloads: 106

Language: English

Subject: Fiction

Subject: Parapsychology

Subject: Detective and mystery stories

LoCC: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.