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Exposing the weird secrets and mediums and spirits by Houdini's mysterious girl detective.

The Minneapolis Sunday Tribune March 10, 1929.

Headline

Exposing the weird secrets of mediums and spirits by Houdini's mysterious girl detective. Subheadline.

Smashing revelations about trumpet tricksters, spirit photography, cabinet hoaxes, ordinations, and phosphorus rates.

Told by the widely young woman who was a master magician's hidden sleuth.

In this chapter, insight facts about the voice from the grave message Houdini's widow got in code.

Preface to article

The three most fascinating and baffling speculations occupying the mind of this generation are the artificial creation of life by laboratory birth.

The possibility of communicating with other planets.

And a fervent hope that our beloved dead may return and hold speech with us.

Of all these speculations, the last named has, by far, the most potent sway over our imaginations.

In fact, next to the instinct of self-preservation, it is perhaps the strongest and noblest and most pitiful emotion of which the human heart is capable.

Mighty men of science have tried to convince people that spiritualism is an impossibility, that the grave ends all.

But other men, equally great, engaged in similar research work have held the genuine mediums, using genuine controls, who assume to perform the function of a radio machine in transmission,

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