The Vanished Man

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My thanks to Jane Davis, who practices her own brand of unparalleled magic in overseeing my website, to my sister and fellow author Julie Reece Deaver, to my dear friend and thriller writer extraordinaire John Gilstrap, and to Robby Burroughs, who accompanied me to the performance of the Big Apple Circus at which the idea for this story was born.

I also found the following sources extremely helpful in the writing of this novel: The Creative Magician's Handbook, Marvin Kaye; The Illustrated History of Magic, Milbourne and Maurine Christopher; The Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram, Ross Bertram; Magicians and Illusionists, Adam Woog; The Annotated Magic of Slydini, Slydini and Gene Matsuura; The Tarbell Course in Magic, Harlan Tarbell; Houdini on Magic, Walter B. Gibson and Morris N. Young, eds; and Magic in Theory, Peter Lamont and Richard Wiseman.