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We got really excited when we read the first lines of this story, purportedly written by Houdini himself for a 1923 edition of The Kinema Comic. It's about our pet topic, Houdini in Russia, the subject of our long-awaited historical novel, The Secret Notebooks of Harry Houdini. (Yes, we've revised the title and will have some news on the forthcoming book very soon.)
There's just enough fact in this to be tantalizing to the historical researcher, and just enough nonsense to be inspiring to the historical novelist. Houdini always claimed that the secret policeman who'd been his Russian nemesis was a certain Lebedeff, but in this it's a weirdly-named Bolstoy. We've investigated Lebedeff in earlier posts, so for now just read and enjoy this extremely rare piece of Houdini fiction.
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[Kinema Comic material from the digital files of the Conjuring Arts Research Center.]
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