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HOUDINI'S INVISIBLE MAN



Houdiniphiles know Harry was a big fan of Sherlock Holmes and a friendly rival of Holmes' creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Less known is Harry's affection for the invisible man of 20th century literature, the writer and philosopher G. K. Chesterton.



Chesterton has been called "the greatest writer of the 20th century," and has been praised as a genius by giants from T. S. Eliot to George Bernard Shaw. He was Borges' favorite writer.

How come most people have never heard of him? Beats me.

His books were huge best-sellers in Harry's day, and live on today in the Father Brown series currently running on public television. They are charming and beautifully written and many of them employ magical devices, performing illusions and sleight-of-hand right there on the page. Click here for an example: the famous story called "The Invisible Man." See if you can spot the trick.









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