The Witch of Lime Street Seance Seduction and Houdini Audiobook by David Jaher 12 CD's

This is a pre owned Audiobook set of 12 CD's of The Witch of Lime Street Seance, Seduction, and Houdini, a 2015 audiobook by David Jaher read by Simon Vance.  History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the "Witch of Lime Street", whose lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal.  Houdini made it his personal mission to debunk fake spiritualists as frauds and charlatans by revealing their tricks.  But Houdini meets his match in this alluring high society flapper known to her many astonished followers as Margery, The Witch of Lime Street, pitting the brash illusionist against dark and dangerous forces of the underworld, with Margery his ultimate target.  The discs appear unplayed and the exterior box has some light storage wear to the edges and corners.  The 12 discs have a 14 hour run time.

 The 1920s are remembered as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish-flu epidemic.  A desperate search for reunion with dead loved ones precipitated a tidal wave of psychics mediums who became celebrities as reputable media sought stories on occult phenomena.  Against this backdrop, in 1924, the pretty wife of a distinguished Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism and communication with the dead.  Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery.  Her most vocal advocate was none other than Sherlock Holmes' creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American and offering a large cash prize to the first medium declared authentic by its impressive five-man investigative committee.  Admired for both her exceptional charm and her dazzling effects, Margery was the best hope for the psychic practice to be empirically verified.   Her supernatural gifts beguiled four of the judges.  There was only one left to convince...the acclaimed escape artist, Harry Houdini.

The story culminates in the showdown between Houdini, a relentless unmasker of charlatans, and Margery, the nation's most credible spirit medium. The Witch of Lime Street is the first book to capture their electric public rivalry and the competition that brought them into each other’s orbit.  This fascinating tale is currently in pre production to be developed into a major movie.