After all, this was before the days of film and television.
If anything, this is a story about how Houdini achieved success through public relations and brilliant marketing. Goes on a jog, inspects the river, gives an interview over breakfast, meets up with a new employee, goes to the bridge where thousands of onlookers are, erm.onlooking, buys time before jumping because his wife hasn't arived yet (the writers speculate that some of his tricks were accomplished with the help of his wife), jumps into the river, escapes and surfaces. Perhaps I was expecting just a bit more but at 82 pages there isn't much you can tell, I suppose. Is it any good? Eh, it's not bad but it's nothing to write home about. Specifically, 1st May 1908 when he attempted the suicidal but so utterly cool escape from handcuffs while sinking down the freezing Charles River in Massachusetts. Tells the story of one day in Houdini's life.
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