In a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, Jim Steinmeyer unveils the secrets behind the most enigmatic performer in the history of stage magic, Chung Ling Soo, the Marvelous Chinese Conjurer a magician whose daring made his contemporary Houdini seem like the boy next door. Soo s infamous and suspicious onstage death in 1918 mystified his fellow magicians: he was shot during a performance of Defying the Bullets, in which he attempted to catch marked bullets on a porcelain plate. When Soo died, his deceptions began to unravel. It was discovered that he was not Chinese but a fifty-eight-year-old American named William Ellsworth Robinson, a.
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