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Authors: William Kalush,Larry Sloman
assists in escape from carette
exposes Houdini imitators
honored by Houdini
provided for in Houdini’s will
receives cable reporting death of
Houdini’s mother
rescues Houdini during chain
escape
rings Kremlin bells
at Queen’s Bridge in Melbourne
timekeeper for Milk Can escape
wields ax during Water Torture cell
escape
Langdon, Professor Hudson
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Laufer, Nathan
Leaf, Horace
Lebedoeff, Chief
Leckie, Jean,
see
Doyle, Lady
Lee, Lila
Leeds, Herbert
Leigh, Janet
Lefebvre, Eugene
LeFevre, Dr. George
Leffler, Mrs.
Leon, Louis S.
Leonard, Benny
LeRoy, Servais
LeRoy, W. D.
LeVeyne, Armstrong
Lily Dale, New York
Lincoln, Abraham
Lippmann, Walter
Literary Society for the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association
Litt Museum
Locklear, Ormer
Loder-Symonds
Lily,Lodge, Sir Oliver
Lodge, Raymond
Logue, Charles
Lombroso, Cesare
London Alhambra Theatre
London Daily Illustrated Mirror,
London
Evening Sun,
London Hippodrome
London Morning Herald,
London Sunday Express,
London Telegraph,
London Weekly Dispatch,
London, Charmian
inspires film character
Houdini’s affair with
meets Houdini
London, Jack
Los Angeles Call,
Los Angeles Orpheum Theatre
Los Angeles Times,
Lost World, The,
Lott
Louis-Philippe, King of France
Lovecraft, H. P.
Lovell, John, Arms Company
Lutes, A.
Lynn, Dr. (Hugh Simmons)
MacDonald, Ramsey
Macfadden, Bernarr
Machpelah Cemetery
Mackenberg, Rose
Magic Circle
Magic Made Easy
(Houdini)
Magic
Ashes on the Arm
Bullet Catch
cards
cardsharping techniques
Crystal Cash Box
Hindoo Needle Trick
with the needles pushed into the
face
Indian Rope Trick
leverage techniques
Levitated Fakir
Mene Tekel
Metamorphosis
Palingenesia
Second Sight
Vanishing Elephant
Walking Through a Brick Wall
Magician Among the Spirits, A
(Houdini)
Mahatma,
Malini, Max
Man From Beyond, The,
Manuka,
S.S.
Marcia, Madame Grace
Marco,
see
Dooley, Edward J.
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess
Margery (Mina Crandon),
alcoholism of
bell box of
Bird’s confession about
called “Psyche,”
death of
dentist’s fingerprints
ectoplasm and,
great-granddaughter of
Houdini séances with
and Houdini’s box
linking rings
megaphone use by
possible surgery on
residence at 10 Lime Street
Scientific American
verdict on
solus sittings of
suicide attempt
Margery, Harvard, Veritas
(Richardson)
Marler, Sir Herbert
Marler, Lady
Martin, Alexander
Martinka, Francis
Martinka’s Magic Shop
Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The
Justly Celebrated Elusive
American,
(Houdini)
Maskelyne & Cooke’s Egyptian Hall
Mason, Ruth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts State Association of
Spiritualists
Master Mystery, The,
Matthews, William
Maurer, Otto
McAdoo, William
McCormick Reaper Works
McDougall, Dr. William,
McGill University
McKeon, H. J. J.
McKinley, President William,
McLeod, Rep. Clarence
McVickers, Mary Fairfield
Melton, F. R.
Melville, William
diary of
early career of
fights with Meunier
meets Houdini
and MI-5
recognizability
and Russia
and Wilkie
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin,
“Men Who Made Magic” (Goldston)
Mendelsohn, Dr. Charles
Menkis
Metcalfe, Mrs.
MI-5
MI-9
Michigan Department of Health
Milner, Richard
Minerva (Margaretha Gertz Van Dorn)
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
(Houdini)
M
—
MI5’s First Spymaster
(Cook)
Moisant, John
Mokana (James Meyer Goldston)
Monahan, Patrick J.
Montreal Gazette,
Mooser, George
Mooser, Hattie
Mooser, Leon
Mooser, Minnie
Morat, Professor,
see
Houdini, Harry
Morris, Helen
Morritt, Charles
Mount Royal Hotel
Mourdini, Harry
Moy, Superintendent
Munn, O. D.
Murray, Gilbert
Myers, Charles David,
see
Saint
Edward
Mystery of the Jewel, The,
Mysto, Carl (Samuel Sterns)
Naldi, Nita
National Bureau of Identification
National Detective Agency
National Detective Police Review
National Independent Spiritualist
Association
National Spiritualist Alliance
Neal, Harry
New York, N.Y.
Coney Island
Hammerstein’s
Hippodrome
New York Police Academy
New York American,
New York Daily News,
New York Dramatic Mirror,
New York Evening Graphic,
New York Evening Journal,
New York Evening Mail,
New York General Assembly of
Spiritualists
New York Herald,
New York Herald Tribune,
New York Hippodrome
New York Life Assurance Co.
New York Police Academy
New York Sun,
New York Telegram,
New York Telegraph,
New York Times,
New York World,
New York, Coney Island
New York, Hammerstein’s,
Newman, Henry
Newton, Horace
Newton, Iris
Nicholas, Czar
Northcliffe, Lord
See also
Harmsworth, Alfred William
Charles
Numerology
O’Malley, Hubert
Oakland Tribune,
Okhrana, Russian secret service
Olschansky
Olsen and Johnson
Omaha Daily News,
Osgood, Whitman
Our Rival the Rascal
(Watts)
Oursler, Fulton
Oxford English Dictionary,
Palace Kleinmichel
Palladino, Eusapia
Palmer, Spencer
Paul, J. R.
Pearce, George
Pecoraro, Nino
Peers, A. J.
Perils of Pauline, The,
Pheneas
first appearance of
and Houdini’s doom
and Lady Doyle’s complicity
predicts the end of the world
problems with Conan Doyle
See also
Doyle, Lady Jean
Philipp, M.
Pickelman, Gerald
Pickering, Edward A.
Pierce, Theron
Pierce, William H.
Piltdown hoax
Pittsburgh Leader,
Player, The,
Plummer, William
Podmore, Frank
Pollak, Carl
Powell, Dr. Ellis
Powell, Evan
Powell, Frederick Eugene
Pratt, Dr.
Preussen, Prince Friedrich Leopold von
Price, Harry
Price, Jacques
Price, Mattie Lee
Prince, Dr. Walter Franklin
Projea the Wild Man of Mexico
Providence Sunday Journal,
Psychic Mafia, The
(Keene)
Psychic News, The,
Pulitzer, Ralph
Punch,
Rachkovskii, Piotr
Rahner, Gebhardt
Rahner, Wilhemina Beatrice,
see
Houdini, Wilhemina Beatrice
(wife)
Rand, Earl
Rasputin, Grigori
Raud, Rev. Francis,
see
Mackenberg
Rose
Rauscher, William
Reeve, Arthur
Rembrandt Theater
Renner, George
Republican National Committee
Restaurant Yar
Revelations of a Spirit Medium,
Rheinische Zeitung,
Rhine, Dr. J.B.
Rhine, Dr. Louisa
Richardson, Mark
Richet, Charles
Richter’s Necktie Company
Richthofen, Manfred von
Right Way to Do Wrong, The
(Houdini)
Rinn, Joseph
carries a gun