December 1932 and The Sphinx magazine carries a full-page advert for Dai Vernon's manuscript Five Close-Up Problems. Without a doubt, Follow The Leader engenders the most attention out of the five, with card men quickly adding this one to their repertoire. Not surprisingly, Doctor Jacob Daley latches on to this timely classic, eventually releasing his own handling in Bruce Elliott's magazine The Phoenix in 1951.
And now, decades on, Ian Baxter releases his new manuscript Another Three Daley Deceits - following on from Three Daley Deceits published in April 2024. This one includes Baxter's handling of Daley's Delight - Jacob Daley's version of Follow The Leader. It is an absolute corker!
Two additional entries: Baxter's handling of Daley's Reverse, which Jean Hugard lauded as "the very best reversal of a single card that I have ever met with." Last, but not least, Baxter details a revised handling of Daley's Card To Pocket, an ingenious treatment of the C.O. Williams original.
1st edition 2025, PDF
word count: 2962 which is equivalent to 11 standard pages of text
