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EXPERT CARD MYSTERIES Compiled by

Alton Sharpe

With Contributions by Leading Card Men

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Sleight-of-Hand with Cards Singly explained and illustrated

Edited by Alan Keith

Copyright 1969 By Alton Sharpe All rights reserved

No part of the text, book, or illustrations may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the author.

FIRST EDITION This is number

of a limited Deluxe Edition.

Illustrations By Marty Williams

Contents Preface by Author Introduction by Eobert Parrish Dedication Acknowledgment

PART ONE: Novel Sleights and Techniques 11 Bottom Reverse Buckley - Irving - Fechter - Mario Multiple Glide Jack Avis Take Me Robert Parrish Ultima Wilfrid Jonson Fay's Gambling Methods Eddie Fay Peek and Deal Capping the Deck Second Dealing Eddie's Hop Omega Pavano Omega, Sr Alton Sharpe Chango-Chango Robert Parrish Perfect False Riffle Shuffle - Addition Ken Krenzel Reacting Riffle Charles Aste, Jr. Super Stop Stunner Charles Aste, Jr. Impossible Card Vanish Alton Sharpe

PART TWO: Larry Jennings Jennings' Open Travellers The Turncoat Homing Card Refigured Pre-Figuration Larry's One to Five Jennings' Visitor

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PART THREE: Paul Swinford Four of a Mind Hidden Countdown

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CONTENTS (Continued) PART FOUR: Contributions from the World's Card Experts 67 Quadruple Transmigrationalism Ian Baxter Favorite Color Changing Pack Ian Baxter Turn Me Over Alton Sharpe Mirabile Dictu Alton Sharpe Royal Aces Ron Ferris Black Magic Ron Ferris Lane's Blue Card in Red Pack Frank Lane Lane's Winning Hand Deal Frank Lane Knockout Card in Aces Alan Shaxon Borrowed You Find It Koran - Sharpe The Flying Queens Alton Sharpe Koran's Double Out Prediction Al Koran Sequence Charles Wicks Pira Frank Pemper Numbero Roger Floyd Can You Alan Keith Think and it's Trapped Bruce Cervan Reverso Louis Lam Triple Reverse Alan Keith Two - Four - Six - Eight - Find Jack Avis Gathering of the Clan Jack Avis Sock It to Me Any Time Aces The Ultimate Transfer Question Prelude Combination Blank Surprise Cavorting Aces Jumping Jacks Ken's Separation Ken's Immediate Spell PART FIVE: Stage or Parlour Mysteries Signature Torn and Restored The Great Stabbing Trick Cards and Wallet Card In Orange PART SIX: Card Mysteries of Ed Mario Mario Re-Stacking Pack Multiple Mental Spell X-Ray Deck Handling

Alan Keith Roger KLause Tony Kardyro Fred Lowe Alan Keith Mel Brown Alton Sharpe Harvey Rosenthal Alton Sharpe Ken Krenzel Ken Krenzel 157 Carl Sten Alton Sharpe Paul LePaul Robert Parrish 173

PREFACE Customarily, a book is prefaced with a few remarks upon the why and the wherefore. It may be called Introduction, Forward, Preface, or what you will, but it is mostly an Excuse. The prospective reader, it is intended, should digest the Preface and thus be persuaded to peruse the book. What usually happens is that the Preface is ignored by the normal reader, but where the reader has derived pleasure from his reading and turns reluctantly from the last page, he is impelled by some natural instinct to the Preface or perhaps the Dedication.

So then the fact that you are engrossed in this Preface, and the probability that you are a normal person and therefore have already perused the contents, affords me a secret pleasure.

That is my Excuse or Preface. But if this unconventional explanation is not satisfactory and you demand a more comprehensible reason then let me say at once it is because you bought Exp&lt H0CLL6 ?OCLli> and because you also bought ExpzJvt CcUid ConjUA^ng that this third volume has been printed. Your patronage has made this work possible.

Special thanks are due to the various contributors for their generous permission to include herein the secrets of their latest and best creations, to Alan Keith for inspiration, and to Mr. Webster for assistance with the spelling.

You, dear reader, will hear more from me. In my next volume will be explained Tony Giorgio's "Card to Your Wallet," Mario's technique for finger palming three cards, and Roger Klause's secret for sleeping on a clothsline, not to mention that yours truly will also predict the end of the world.

Alton Sharpe