In “The Right Way to Do Wrong,” the reprint of a book originally published in 1906, he offers advice, in memoir form, for upright citizens seeking to avoid pickpockets and confidence men. Source notes, an index, and a bibliography are included, as well as an annotated list of websites.A Unique Selection of Writings by History’s Greatest Escape Artistīefore David Copperfield made the Great Wall of China disappear and David Blaine was frozen in a block of ice, there was a Hungarian-born Jew who made a career of escaping from handcuffs, milk cans and prison cells: Harry Houdini. Scads of black-and-white photographs and colorful ephemera are further supplemented with Lane's flashy full-page paintings which, although largely extraneous and even a tad cheesy beside the primary-source images, do break the text into less daunting sections. What it does boast, though, is a serviceable (if somewhat thin) account coupled with a favorable picture-to-text ratio calculated to attract reluctant readers. Weaver's picture book-formatted bio falls short in comparison with such recent works as Jason Lutes' Houdini the Handcuff King (BCCB 6/07) or Sid Fleischman's Escape! (BCCB 10/06), lacking the novelty of Lutes' graphic-novel examination of Houdini's Charles River escape and the rollicking narration of Fleischman's lengthier study.
Thus a new offering on his gasp-worthy career is generally considered for inclusion among the-dare we say "glut"?-of Houdini titles on the shelf. Illusionist, contortionist, inveterate risk-taker and master of self-promotion, Harry Houdini (born Erich Weiss) steadily maintains his status among the A-list personalities in school biography reports.
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