Lives of the Conjurers, Volume Three* Houdini (Part I)--The story of the escape artist who became the highest-paid performer in vaudeville. From his early days as a newsboy, to his years struggling in beer halls, sideshows, dimemuseums, and other lowly venues, to his success as the Handcuff King, to his rise to international fame. (His fateful encounter with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and spiritualism, and subsequent campaign against fraudulent mediums,...