Review of "Who Was Harry Houdini? (Who Was...?)" by Tui Sutherland, John O'Brien

Even more famous and of interest was Harry Houdini. He was a great magician who was most famous for his "escapes." They could put him in handcuffs and into escape-proof cells and he always got out. Upside-down in a tank of water, they trussed him up and dropped him in. He got out of that one, too! They put him in straightjackets (a heavy-duty coverall made of canvas used for the mentally ill and dangerous criminals) and then hung him in the air. He got out of that, too! He spent a lot of time exposing anyone who claimed to be able to talk to the dead to be frauds and con artists. Houdini and his friend, Dunniger the mentalist, both did this. When Houdini did this, he lost the friendship of that famous author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Houdini exposed the frauds and Doyle was a devout believer in séances reaching the dead.