Houdini and Conan Doyle: Friends of Genius, Deadly Rivals by Christopher Sandford " review by Olivia Laing

The unlikely friendship between Houdini and Conan Doyle, and how it turned sour over matters supernatural, makes for a magnificently rich storyIn 1918, Harry Houdini made a fully-grown elephant vanish from the stage of the New York Hippodrome. He could escape from locked boxes, wriggle out of straitjackets while dangling from a crane, and once spent 91 minutes in a galvanised iron coffin submerged at the bottom of a …

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