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2) Houdini
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High above the city street, Harry Houdini hangs by his ankles. A madman's straitjacket binds his torso and arms. He'll never get out of this one alive. But somehow he does. The only bonds Harry Houdini never wished to escape were his marriage bonds to his cherished wife and assistant Bess. From his early career struggles to his crusade against spiritual charlatans, from the Water Torture Cell to other signature feats, from the fate he could not escape...
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When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane, a Limehouse magician named Phroso vows to get even. Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel, Phroso spends the next 18 years living with cannibals while he waits for the child to come of age. Summoning the debauched young woman to his jungle lair, Phroso plans to reunite the girl with her long-lost father, after which he'll order the natives to kill the trader and burn...