Harry Houdini\'s fame is secure as the greatest magician of modern times.
This book is Houdini\'s own account of these exploits, supplemented with.
He permitted himself to be thrown, manacled, into the Hudson River; to be nailed into packing cases and lowered into the ocean; to be suspended by the ankles, strait-jacketed, hundreds of feet above the ground -- and in every case escaped easily.
Many of his fabulous escapes, indeed, now sound more like legend than history, yet they really happened.
Harry Houdini\'s fame is secure as the greatest magician of modern times