Scarne's Magic Tricks
by John Scarne

This ebook describes 201 easy to do but effective tricks covering a wide range including feats of mentalism, tricks with paper and parts of your body.

From the inside flap of the original book:

• Publisher's Notes
• Forward
• The Talking Mirror
• Coin Through Handkerchief
• Smoking Sleeve
• Predicto
• Ring on the String
• The Magical Shirt
• Chalk Penetration
• The Magic Calendar
• Name, Please!
• Cigarette from Nowhere
• Find the Pellet
• Is He Alive?
• The Rope and the Bracelet
• Key on a String
• The Magic Toothpick
• Releaso
• Color by Sense of Touch
• Swallowing a Goldfish
• Extrasensory Perception
• The Magnetized Knife
• Houdini Escape Trick
• Solid Through Solid
• The Rising Cigarette
• The Flame Prediction
• The Disappearing Coin
• Initial in Fire
• Sensitive Fingers
• The Liquid Tells
• Drinking Smoke
• Lightening Addition
• The Spiritual Glass
• Crossed Digit
• The Tricky Spoon
• The Talking Cards
• Scarne's Bank Night
• The Knotted Coin
• It's in the Ashes
• The United Shreds
• Three to One
• The Dollar That Wouldn't Burn
• Divination of Age
• Tricks with Sugar
• The Reappearing Match Heads
• Magic Dates and Days
• The Six-Cent Trick
• The Famous Penny
• Mathematics Plus
• Cut and Tied
• Two Minus Two Equals Two
• Up in Flames
• The Knife That Doesn't Cut
• Stringing a Ring
• Change for a Five-Dollar Bill
• Ghost Match
• A Life-Saving Dollar
• Mind Over Matter
• The Coin Vanishes
• The "Cut-up" Tie
• In Your Hat
• The Animated Match Box
• Magnetic Hands
• Scarne's Cellophane Tear
• Dry Water
• Multiplying Dimes
• Scarne's Coin Vanish
• Time Machine
• Through Stick and Pin
• Cross Your Palm
• Telepathic Coins
• Breaking a Pencil with a Dollar Bill
• Replacing a Button without A Needle
• Spots Before Your Eyes
• The Match Box Coin Vanish
• Scarne's Think of a Number
• When a Break Is Not a Break
• Disobeying Gravity
• A Cigarette Production
• The Famous Belt Trick
• Houdini's Coin Vanish
• Strip Tease
• Ring Levitation
• A Drink on the House
• A Cigarette Changes to a Dollar Bill
• Stick Through Hat
• Classical Rope Trick
• Spin the Coin
• Roll Your Own
• Vest Through Coat
• Animated Cigar Band
• Salivary Repair
• The Unstickable Pin
• Flexible Pencil
• The Non-Burning Shoelace
• The Match from Nowhere
• Fourth-Dimensional Knot
• Rope Through the neck
• Cut-Up
• He Knows Your Number
• Color-Changing Shoelace
• Changing Checkers
• Sleight of Foot
• Transposed Colors
• Dead or Alive
• From the Spirit World
• For a Change
• Finger Waves
• Slate Telepathy
• Arithmetical Matches
• Gravity Defied
• Watch-It
• Divination of a Sum
• Burning Sugar
• Telephone Mind Reading Experiment
• The Twice-Lit Match
• Knots That Are Not
• Pendulum of Fate
• Melting Coin
• Hopping Rubber Band
• The Literary Glasses
• The Chameleon Handkerchief
• Impossible Escape
• The Traveling Signature
• Sour Dollar
• Obedient Handkerchief
• The Elusive Marble
• Color Discernment
• Under the Table
• Shirt Off
• The Self Tying Handkerchief
• Magnetic Bottle
• Mind Reading Deluxe
• Pencil and Loop
• Sympathetic Twins
• Hypno-Magnetism
• Runaway Loop
• Shifty Number
• Coin Through Elbow
• Mysterious Dollar
• The Ventilated Hand
• The Money Tie
• The Diving Doll
• Scarne's Egyptian Bead Mystery
• Scarne's Magic Ball of Yarn
• Loop the Loop
• Clipped
• Jack's Beanstalk
• Paper Tears
• The Stretching Finger
• Scarne's Indestructible Handkerchief
• The Magic Birthday Square
• Under Two Hats
• Scarne's Fire Trick
• Scarne's Miracle Prediction
• Magical Liquids
• Telepathy Par Excellence
• The Devil's Handkerchief
• Scarne's Bean Trick
• The Turnabout Bill
• Color Separation
• Magazine Mind Reading
• Test of Strength
• Sitting Tight
• Hindu Papers
• Ashes of the Phoenix
• Miracle Slate
• The Flying Glass
• Behind the Napkin Ball
• The Vanishing Fountain Pen
• The Uncrushable Glass
• The Melting Half Dollar
• Coin Divination
• Magic Key Rings
• Roping a Handkerchief
• The Astonishing Match
• Three Shell Game
• Blowing a Knots Out of a Handkerchief
• Human Magnatism
• The Mystic Fortune-Telling Cards
• Hypnotic Rigidity
• The Self-Restoring Ribbon
• Serial Reading
• Matchless Matches
• Air Knots
• Pulse Control
• Blindfold Cigarette Test
• Mnemonics
• Match Antics
• Liquid Suspension
• Scarne's Changing Cigar
• X-Ray Ropes
• Squash
• Smoke Without Fire
• The Floating Table
• Reproducing Sponges
• Handkerchief Penetration
• Scarne's Non-Burning Bill
• Scarne's Telepathic Sugar Cubes
• Color-Changing Cube
• Ring Around the Pencil
• The Magic Bag
• Scarne's Names From Nowhere

1st edition 1953; 256 pages
word count: 84372 which is equivalent to 337 standard pages of text