Houdini's "Girl Detective": The Real-Life Ghost-Busting Adventures of Rose Mackenberg - Paperback
Houdini's "Girl Detective": The Real-Life Ghost-Busting Adventures of Rose Mackenberg - Paperback
Description
by Tony Wolf (Author), Rose Mackenberg (Author)
The 1920s: a time of unprecedented belief in "spiritualism", or the practice of ostensibly communicating with the spirits of the dead.Into this milieau stepped Rose Mackenberg, a private detective trained by the great magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini. Her mission: to investigate and expose "ghost racketeers" who used magic tricks and psychological manipulation to con bereaved people out of their hard-earned cash."Houdini's Girl Detective" is an illustrated anthology of Rose Mackenberg's original 1929 newspaper article series, detailing her sometimes hair-raising adventures exposing the chicanery of the ghost racket.
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