The Handcuff King
Who knew that the greatest magician in the world cut his teeth touring the Maritimes? March 2013
Bruce MacNab’s The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini follows the exploits of Houdini as he laid the groundwork for becoming a 20th-century icon. Houdini, of course, became famous for escaping from ropes in less time than it took to be tied up, from handcuffs brought and placed on him by others, from straitjackets used on the insane and from jail cells that housed notorious…