Tom Craven

This ebook is all about John Quine's startlingly good "keeper" concept. The Keeper is a Straddle Faro that shuffles the entire deck but retains the second from top card in situ. But, that's just the tip of the iceberg...

This ebook is a reprint of the "keeper" material from both The Card Magic of John Quine (which was mostly Tom's material) and BS timations. The rest of the ebook is made up of "keeper" material from Precursor, The Minotaur and a whole bunch of exciting new stuff! If you can do a Straddle Faro Shuffle, you can do The Keeper. To be frank, as Harry Lorayne pointed out, Mr. Quine's original handling...

Back in 1982, Tom Craven wrote a charming little booklet entitled The 16th Card Book. This ebook is a reproduction of this booklet and additionally a collection of contributions by a list of eclectic performers who contributed their routines on the same topic.

Tom Craven's original 16th Card Book - 1982

• What's In A Name
• Preface
• Top Ten (Craven)
• Suite Sixteen (Goldstein)
• Suite Sixteen Variant (Goldstein)
• A Perfect Mis-Match (Craven)
• Cut N' Count Double (Craven)
• My Card Is (Craven)
• Conjuring With Cards (Trost)
• Siamese Suite (Goldstein)
• Which Card's Company? (Craven)
• Three's Company...