Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Spiritualism

Book of the Day: Final Seance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle, by Massimo Polidoro.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini are two of the most famous popular cultural figures of the early twentieth century, with their popularity enduring long after their deaths. They also developed one of the more interesting friendships of the time, centering around the question of spiritualism and whether or not there existed supernatural powers and beings.