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Walker's Card Mysteries is a book of highly useful and original card conjuring. The forty odd items deal with systems, sleights and subtleties, while each experiment is worked out in the most minute detail. Accurate illustrations enhance the value of the publication.
From the Preface:
...the following problems have, without exception, been submitted to a thorough test, which has resulted, here and there, in the elimination of a weak point. Thus it is with complete confidence in their practicability that these ideas are made public. A few have received prior publication in The Sphinx but the majority now make their appearance for the first time.
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I REVERSED CARD EFFECTS
- The Phantom Jester
- A Double Reverse
- Good Companions
- "My Turn"
- Black Kings
- Slow Motion Reverse
- CHAPTER II A RED AND BLUE BACK SERIES
- CHAPTER III MENTAL CARD EFFECTS
- One, Two, Three
- Your Choice
- Which Ace?
- The Joker Listens
- The Secret Sequence
- Double Dealing
- Your Thoughts
- The Missing Card
- CHAPTER IV MISCELLANEOUS EFFECTS
- Over and Over
- No-Revoke
- Torn!
- The Stabbed Cards
- Steamboat Bill
- Settled out of Court
- CHAPTER V NEW SLEIGHTS
- The Silent Colour Change
- The Colour Change Unique
- A Card Detection
- A New Top Change
- The Throw Pass
- A New Number Force
- Exchanging the Packs
- CHAPTER VI PREPARED CARD EFFECTS
- Eyes of the Mind
- Detecto
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Spelling the Name
- CHAPTER VII BISEAUTE PACK EFFECTS
- The Shuffled Speller
- Like Thoughts
- Positions Unknown
- Just the Reverse
- Sympathetic Numbers
- CHAPTER VIII A NEW APPLICATION OF THE BLACK ART PRINCIPLE
1st edition 1933, 99 pages; PDF 65 pages.
word count: 30739 which is equivalent to 122 standard pages of text
