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History comes alive in this textured consideration of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Block, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when research was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the golden time of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the nature world, following the lack of tens of hundreds of thousands in the First World Battle and the Spanish-flu epidemic. A desperate seek out reunion with dead loved ones precipitated a tidal influx of self-proclaimed psychics - and, as reputable multimedia sought testimonies on occult phenomena, mediums became stars. From this backdrop, in 1924, the pretty wife of the distinguished Boston cosmetic surgeon emerged to embody the raging national argument over Spiritualism, a motion devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Block, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was none other than Sherlock Holmes' creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who thought so extensively in Margery's forces that he urged her to type in a controversial competition, sponsored by Scientific North american and offering a huge cash award to the first medium announced genuine by its impressive five-man investigative committee. Adored for both her exceptional allure and her amazing results, Margery was the best hope for the psychic practice to be empirically verified. Her supernatural gift items beguiled four of the judges. There is only one left to convince...the acclaimed get away artist Harry Houdini. David Jaher's remarkable debut culminates in the showdown between Houdini, a relentless unmasker of charlatans, and Margery, the nation's most credible nature medium. The Witch of Lime Block, the first reserve to capture their electric general population rivalry and your competition that helped bring them into each other's orbit, profits us to the oft-mythologized age to deepen our understanding of its background, all while igniting our imagination and participating with the ageless question: Will there be life after death?
