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Preface
Introduction
PART 1 – BEFORE 1921
The Westcar Papyrus
The First Vertical Sawing
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Robert-Houdin
Thomas Tobin and The Sphinx Illusion
Palingenesia
The Hanlon Brothers
Professor Hengler
Charles De Vere
Percy Tibbles
P.T. Selbit
Val Walker
Stanley Collins
Sawing Through a Woman
PART 2 – 1921
Horace Goldin
Harry Jansen
Servais Le Roy
Vaudeville
The Great Leon
Perparations for War
P.T. Selbit arrives in America
Cue the Lawyers
Mexican Hermann
Alexander Pantages
Burn Out
PART 3 – AFTER 1921
Disaster Film
Carl Owen and The Man Who Knows
Linden Heverly
Walter Gibson
Al Flosso
Jack Gwynne
Emil Jarrow
David Swift
Silent Mora
Charles Carter
Percy Abbott
Will Nicola
Cecil Barrie
Les Levante
Subduing a Woman with Bayonets
Dai Vernon
OKEH Records
Tearing a Woman Apart
Charcot
Harry Jansen/Dante
Goldin vs. Carter
The Buzz Saw Illusion
Alpe Barbour
The Living Miracle
Harry Blackstone Sr.
Frank Luckner
Lester Lake
Carter the Great’s Buzz Saw Illusion
Joseph Dunninger
Dunninger’s Other Buzz Saw
The Great Lester
P.C. Sorcar
The Orange Show
Joseph Ovette
The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Goldin vs. Dante – Rematch
Farewell P.T. Selbit
Anastasius Kasfikis
Guy Jarrett
George LaLonde
David Bamberg
Rajah Raboid / Maurice Rooklyn
Cantarelli
Robert Harbin
Virgil Mulkey
Zati Sungur
Tihany
Robert “Torchy” Towner
Kirk Kirkham
John Daniel
Virgil & Julie
Mark Wilson
Richiardi Jr.
Channing Pollock
Alan Wakeling
David Copperfield
Crystal Sawing
Penn & Teller
Kevin James
Jim Steinmeyer
No End in Sight
Secrets Exposed
The End of the Road
Bibliography
Index