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Article: The Man Who Killed Houdini: An Investigation.(Here I Sit)(Book Review)
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- April 10, 2005
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The Man Who Killed Houdini, an Investigation by Don Bell Montreal, Vehicule Press, 2004, 260 pp
Harry Houdini was the most famous magician of the twentieth century. In his prime, during the halcyon days of vaudeville, Houdini regularly played to standing-room-only houses, wowing the locals with his bevy of tricks, illusions and escapes.
In the prime of his life, the American magician (real name, Erich Weiss) died at 52, in Detroit on Oct. 31, 1926, a victim of a ruptured appendix, apparently brought on by a sucker punch nine days before while he was in Montreal.
Montreal journalist Don Bell, who died in 2003, spent twenty years trying to track ...