The Witch of Lime Street
Subtitle: Seance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780307451064
Description: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American. Her supernatural gifts beguiled four of the judges. There was only one left to convince... the acclaimed escape artist, Harry Houdini. Jaher captures their electric public rivalry and the competition that brought them into each other's orbit.
Table of contents: label: I
title: The Dead Boys
pagenum: 1; label: II
title: The River of Doubt
pagenum: 21; label: III
title: The New Wilderness
pagenum: 51; label: IV
title: The Saxophone and Spirit Trumpet
pagenum: 81; label: V
title: The Great Spirit Hunt
pagenum: 105; label: VI
title: The Witch of Lime Street
pagenum: 181; label: VII
title: Spirits of the Dead
pagenum: 295; label: VIII
title: How Death Deals Its Cards
pagenum: 365; label: IX
title: The Shadow of a Dream
pagenum: 391; title: Sources
pagenum: 413; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 421; title: Index
pagenum: 425