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The Mystery of Houdini’s Disappearing Bookcase
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. The origin story of Harry Houdini’s bookcase, which will be unveiled at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center, at the University of Texas, this week as part of a major exhibit, sounds like the type of lore the legendary illusionist would have invented if it weren’t true.The record begins in the early 1900s, when, on the rare occasion that Houdini wasn’t traveling the world entertaining audiences with his disappearing act and other magic tricks, he was at his townhouse in Harlem, New York. There, wearing his usual rumpled, striped button-down, he’d putter around rooms that were bursting with stacks of books. Since he’d finally started making money, he’d…The post The Mystery of Houdini’s Disappearing Bookcase appeared first on Texas Monthly.