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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Conan Doyle's Relationship With Houdini

Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the biggest proponents of spiritualism in the 20th century. He wrote books on it and traveled doing lecture tours on it. Houdini put out a book in 1924 called A Magician Among the Spirits. It was his debunking Bible. And he sent a copy to Conan Doyle, who scrawled across the title page a malicious book.

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