ULTIMATE SECRETS OF CARD MAGIC

BY DAI VERNON

CONTENTS

FOREWORD 1
CHAPTER 1. STARTING RIGHT 5
SECTION ONE - CARD EFFECTS
CHAPTER 2. MATCHED SPELLOUT 13
CHAPTER 3. THE PERFECT CIRCLE OF CARDS 17
CHAPTER 4. "SECRETS" 21
CHAPTERS. "DO AS I DO" 23
CHAPTER 6. BLACK AND RED PUZZLE 27
CHAPTER 7. MENTAL SPELL 31
CHAPTER 8. TEN GIVES THREE 35
CHAPTER 9. THE MAGIC OF LARRY JENNINGS
Tell-TaleAces 39
CHAPTER 10. LARREVERSE 47
CHAPTER 11. GAMBLER'S TRIUMPH 53
CHAPTER 12. THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD 59
CHAPTER 13. MONARCHS1 QUARTETTE 65
CHAPTER 14. LES CARTES DIACONIS 69
CHAPTER 15. RUNNING THE SCALE 73
CHAPTER 16. PURE MATHEMATICS 75
CHAPTER 17. SLOW MOTION CARD VANISH 77
SECTION TWO- CARD SLEIGHTS AND MOVES
CHAPTER 18. VERNON ON THE PASS
Standard Pass 84
The Black Pass 86
Location Pass 87
Sprong'sPass 88
Fan Pass Transformation .. ... 89
CHAPTER 19. VERNON ON TABLE PASSES
First Method 91
Second Method 92
Mexican Joe's Table Pass 93
Charlie Miller's Table Pass 94
CHAPTER 20. AFTER PEEKING
Pressure Fan 96
Spread Location 97
Shuffle to Top 98
Double Peek Control 99
Three Break Control 100
Multiple Peek Control 101
Transferring the Break 101
Spectator Finds His Own Card 102
Adaption of Greek Break 103
CHAPTER 21. ONE HANDED SHUFFLES
Benzon's Shuffle 105
Vernon's Shuffle.. .106
CHAPTER 22. CARD PLACEMENT
Vernon's Placement 107
John McCormick's Penetration 108
CHAPTER 23. HANDLING A SHORT CARD
The Short Card Ill
Locating a Short Card Ill
The Corner Short 112
Vernon's Method of Handling 112
CHAPTER 24. MAGIC CASTLE MOVES
All Around Square Up 115
Jennings' Top Palm 117
Key Card Placement 118
Small Packet Glide 119
Rooklyn Top Palm 120
CHAPTER 25. MORE USEFUL SLEIGHTS & MOVES
Single Shuffle Control 123
Spreading Six Cards as Five 123
Key Card Location 124
Cold Deck Cut 125
CHAPTER 26. TWO SLEIGHTS BY DR. ELLIOTT
Bottom Deal 130
Favourite Break Control 131
SECTION THREE- FRIENDS OF DAI VERNON
CHAPTER 27. MAGIC FROM BRITAIN
Slippery Aces Jack Avis 135
Double Prediction Alex Elmsley 139
Face Your Brothers Alex Elmsley 141
Last Word Four Aces Francis Haxton 143
The Innocent Cheat Fred Lowe 146
Thought of Card Across Peter Warlock 149
Fellow Travellers Roy Walton 153
CHAPTER 28. MAGIC FROM CANADA
Pivot Change Ross Bertram 157
Bottom Steal & Recovery Ross Bertram 158
CHAPTER 29. MAGIC FROM HOLLAND
The Three Jokers Fred Kaps 161
Ups and Downs Rink 165
Find the Ace Eddie Taytelbaum 167
Infallible Force Eddie Taytelbaum 171
CHAPTER 30. MAGIC FROM IRELAND
Yemen's Variant Dai Vernon 173
Emerald Isle Aces Vernon-Ross-Lambert 176
Swivelleroo ... .. Hubert Lambert 176
CHAPTER 31. MAGIC FROM U. S. A.
Card Transposition Francis Carlyle 179
"You Get It" Gerald Kosky 181
One Pack "Do As I Do" Jay Ose 182
Sleight of Mind Bill Simon 184