DETECTIVE STORIES FROM REAL LIFE and TRUE STORIES OF MODERN MAGIC

PART I A Flight into Texas 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 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 PART II-- M. ROBERT-HOUDIN 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