The Sunday Telegraph London, December 24th, 2006
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
BY WILLIAM KALUSH
AND LARRY SLOMAN
SIMON & SCHUSTER, pounds 18.99, 624 pp
T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
On 29 April, 1911 at the Southampton Hippodrome, the world's most famous living magician and escapologist premiered his latest act. The Water Torture Cell was a glass-fronted box with an inset steel cage. It had cost Harry Houdini $20,000 (just under half a million dollars today) and had taken more than a year to design. Houdini's ankles were locked into stocks which were hoisted up and Houdini was low...
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