The Witch Of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, And Houdini In The Spirit World

"Occasionally, you run across a book so good it feels like a secret — and spend months recommending it to anyone who will listen. That’s The Witch of Lime Street. David Jaher’s sprawling history follows Scientific American magazine’s search for a genuine medium in the 1920s. It was a perfect storm of editorial egos, scientific rigor and Spiritualist popularity — and a road that would lead to Boston and a woman ready to face the great debunker, Harry Houdini himself. The research is painstaking, but it reads like a thriller, threading in enough uncertainty that we never lose a sense of dangerous magic. Houdini would approve."