The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist
Karl Johnson, . . Holt, $26 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-7406-2
This engrossing detective story traces the quest of Dai Vernon, né David Verner (1894–1992), to find the man who perfected the art of dealing from the center of the deck. An accomplished card cheat, sleight-of-hand magician and silhouette portraitist, Vernon was so expert at duplicitous card techniques that he once fooled Houdini with tricks he'd learned as a child from S.W. Erdnase's classic
Reviewed on: 05/30/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 368 pages - 978-1-4668-3304-3
Paperback - 368 pages - 978-0-8050-8059-9