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Case File No. 034 · PDF ebook · 27 pages

The Suspicious Death of Harry Houdini

100 Years Later

The punch, the doctors' bulletins, the insurer that paid double, and the stunt coffin he was buried in. No autopsy was ever done.

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Why it's worth it

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9 evidence exhibits
Real documents, photographs and posters, from his 1918 draft card to the 1926 pool casket.
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2 maps drawn for this file
His last tour from Worcester to Queens, day by day, and Houdini's world from Budapest to Diggers Rest.
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6 stories the video skipped
The Mirror handcuffs, the flying magician, the vanishing elephant, his will and more.
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The original words
1926 New York Times bulletins and Houdini's own 1924 séance account, with plain-English notes.
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Printable poster replicas
Four Houdini posters, 1895 to 1921, ready to print and cut out.
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Large-print edition included
Two PDFs, plus every source and image credit listed.

Inside this file

  • The case in one page, and a timeline from Budapest 1874 to the 2007 exhumation that never happened
  • Exhibits: his 1918 draft card, the 1924 Weird Tales story ghostwritten by Lovecraft, the 1926 Washington hearings, the pool casket, the 'Buried Alive' poster and more
  • Original words: the 1926 doctors' bulletins and funeral reports from the New York Times, and Houdini's own account of Lady Doyle's séance
  • Persons of interest: Houdini, Bess, J. Gordon Whitehead, 'Margery' Crandon, Conan Doyle and Arthur Ford
  • Two maps drawn for this file: his last tour day by day, and Houdini's world
  • Myth vs. record: the boxer, the Water Torture Cell death, the candle, the 2007 exhumation
  • Printable replicas: four Houdini posters, 1895 to 1921
  • Visit it today, and case closed? Our verdict, with every source listed

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