Item ALL/2/2 - The Amazing Exploits of Houdini

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ALL/2/2

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The Amazing Exploits of Houdini

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  • 1922-1923 (Creation)

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1 folder, Typescript document

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Typescript draft [346 pages total] of each story of The Amazing Exploits of Houdini and duplicate set.

Stories included:
1. The Empty Trunk
2. A Shelter for the Night
3. Conner's Fight
4. The New Player
5. [untitled - A Quiet Night]
6. Two Little Cherubs
7. Not Quite a Joke
8. Young Arth Wright Captures a Client
9. The Rest Cure
10. The Wager
11. Houdini's Ghost
12. The Man in the Mask
13. The Forest Fire
14. The Hindu Charm
15. The String of Pearls
16. The Snowstorm
17. The House of Mystery
18. My Friend Dobson
19. Carlo Quik
20. The Strolling Players
21. The Iron Safe
22. When I was King
23. The Warehouse by the River
24. Shanghaied
25. The Haunted House
26. Houdini's Blunder
27. Flash Kennedy's Last Exploit
28. The Bank Robbers
29. In a Tight Corner
30. The Butler
31. The Mail Robbers
32. The Apaches
33. Tit for Tat [differs from the next in the published series - Pelham Webb's Last Case]

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Status: Open. Access is subject to signing the Regulations for Access form, unless the records are restricted under the Data Protection Act 2018 or under exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000

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      Published in The Kinema Comic

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