Thirty Card Mysteries
by Charles Thorton Jordan

Thirty Card Mysteries is the most important work Charles T. Jordan published. Several card moves and ideas are credited to Charles T. Jordan. The most well-known one is the Jordan Count. In this book, he details moves like a single card reverse or half pack reverse. He describes spelling tricks and the effect Coluria is probably the first magical use of a bracelet code (much more on this binary code can be found in Leo Boudreau’s work).

1st edition, 1919, California; 48 pages.

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to its Lair.
6. 1. Close-Range Mind Reading
7. 2. Long-Distance Mind Reading
9. 3. The Premo
12. 4. A Novel Detection
14. 5. The Dealing Dovetail Detection
16. 6. The Rolling-Off-A-Log Detection
17. 7. The Full Hand
20. 8. With the Mind's Eye
21. 9. The Simplicity Speller
23. 10. The Trio
24. 11. Odd Or Even
25. 12. The Escape
26. 13. The Bare-Faced Detection
27. 14. The Twentieth Century Puzzle
28. 15. Telepathic Control
29. 16. The Single-Card Reverse
30. 17. The Half-Pack Reverse
31. 18. The Alternate Reverse
32. 19. The Pack That Cuts Itself
33. 20. The Impossible Journey
34. 21. Our Friends, the Aces
36. 22. Leave it to the Aces
37. 23. The Phantom Aces
38. 24. The Message From Mars
39. 25. Coluria
39. 26. Satan's Trance
41. 27. Change Your Mind?
42. 28. Spelling Any Card Called For
43. 29. The Card And Number Mystery
44. 30. The Card And Bag Mystery
46. The Thirty-First Mystery
47. Diagrams 1-7
48. Diagrams 8-26