The Master Magicians

by Walter B. Gibson

Lives and methods of eight magicians including Robert Houdin, Herrmann the Great, Chung Ling Soo, and the Great Raymond

224 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897-December 6, 1985) was an American author and professional magician best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote "more than 300 novel-length" Shadow stories, writing up to "10,000 words a day" to satisfy public demand during the character's golden age in the 1930s and 1940s.