Phantoms of the Card Table - Couverture rigide

Britland, David; Macee, Gazzo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843440032 ISBN 13 : 9781843440031

Editeur : High Stakes Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Walter Irving Scott was the greatest man ever with a pack of cards, so said Max Holden, writing in The Sphinx magazine, an exclusive journal for magicians. This was in 1930 after Scott had bamboozled a room full of New York's finest card manipulators by dealing himself winning poker hands from a shuffled deck. He liked to say of himself that he 'cheated the cheats.' His skill with cards was extraordinary. He was elusive too, and soon became known as The Phantom of the Card Table.

We call have a sneaking admiration for the man who can deal from the bottom of the deck and get away with it. That's why New York's finest magicians gathered to watch Walter Scott and later paid generously to learn his methods. And that's why some sixty years later Gary Osborne ('Gazzo'), a magician from England, decided to track him down. To his utter surprise, he found him, living in a retirement home in Rhode Island. The two became friends and Scott openly discussed his work with a view to it finally being published. 'I don't care what you say,' said Scott, 'as long as you tell the truth.' This then, is the truth about Walter Irving Scott.

The book includes stories of Scott and other legendary card experts, with a full explanation of the methods Scott used to fool the finest sleight of hand artists in the world.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

David Britland has written books on magic for magicians and worked as a researcher, writer and producer in British television including Channel 4's alternative magic show, The Secret Cabaret and Granada's James Randi: Psychic Investigator. For HTV he developed two series of Something Strange and a long running Meridian/Anglia series The Magic & Mystery Show, this before The X-Files turned the paranormal into a bandwagon. He has also taken a more serious look at the paranormal in several science documentaries developed for Channel 4's Equinox series. These included Superpowers, The Big Sleep and Secrets of the Psychics. Later this year he'll be making a documentary for Radio 4 about mind readers, called Mystery Men.

David Britland is the force behind the BBC3 series, The Real Hustle. More details at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/real_hustle.shtml

Gazzo is one of the world's foremost street entertainers, and has worked in major cities all over the world - the name and character are an invention of expert card handler Gary Osborne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: High Stakes Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843440032
• ISBN 13: 9781843440031
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible