Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ad – Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery

Today starts a series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

  • Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
  • Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
  • Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
  • The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
  • By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
  • Kidnapped into Pictures
  • Handcuffs I Have Met
  • Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
  • Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
  • $25 for Houdini’s Secret
  • Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
  • About Publicity

Guess where I was the last few days?

That’s right, the District of Columbia, aka the Capital of the United States. Got to do some Houdini Research (images 1 and 2) at the Jefferson Library of Congress (image 3), visit the Capital Building (image 4), Arlington National Cemetery Virginia (image 5), Lincoln Memorial (image 6), and last but certainly not least, got to hang out with Corporate Magician and “Iona” author, Charles Greene III (image 7). Also visited the Natural History Museum and the Air and Space Museum (no images).

Houdini’s Jorkins & Co is now available

Houdini’s Jorkins & Co: Developed from The Duffer Detective by David Pitt (aka Herbert Allingham) is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

Product Description:

Joe M. Notaro brought Allinghams ‘Houdini’s Schooldays’ into print and now he tackles the not widely known ‘Jorkins & Co’.

‘Jorkins & Co’ [1922-3], was a short story series developed from Allingham’s ‘The Duffer, Detective’, and ascribed to Houdini, the Handcuff King.

Tracking down a surviving copy of Houdini’s ‘Jorkins & Co’ has been elusive, so Joe M. Notaro has taken liberties and updated ‘The Duffer, Detective’, with “Houdini” references; similar to what Allingham did with ‘Houdini’s Schooldays’.

In ‘Jorkins & Co’, Houdini has left his school days and has gone in search of new adventure. He summons his old school friend, Arthur Merlin, to help him rescue an acquaintance called Jorkins, who has mysteriously disappeared.

Joe M. Notaro is a Houdini historian, author, collector, blogger, and expert on his movies and writings. For more info, please visit his website:

HarryHoudiniCircumstantialEvidence.com

AUTOGRAPHED COPIES (available Mid-August 2024)

US Customers can order Autographed copies directly from me via PayPal:

  • $20 includes Autographed SB book and USPS book rate shipping

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