hirty Card Mysteries is the most important work Charles T. Jordan published. Several card moves and ideas are credited to Charles T. Jordan. The most well known one is the Jordan Count. In this book he details moves like a single card reverse or half pack reverse. He describes spelling tricks and the effect Coluria is probably the first magical use of a bracelet code (much more on this binary code can be found in Leo Boudreau's work).
1st edition, 1919, California; 48 pages.
Table of Contents
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Preface
Introduction
Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to its Lair.
1. Close-Range Mind Reading
2. Long-Distance Mind Reading
3. The Premo
4. A Novel Detection
5. The Dealing Dovetail Detection
6. The Rolling-Off-A-Log Detection
7. The Full Hand
8. With the Mind's Eye
9. The Simplicity Speller
10. The Trio
11. Odd Or Even
12. The Escape
13. The Bare-Faced Detection
14. The Twentieth Century Puzzle
15. Telepathic Control
16. The Single-Card Reverse
17. The Half-Pack Reverse
18. The Alternate Reverse
19. The Pack That Cuts Itself
20. The Impossible Journey
21. Our Friends, the Aces
22. Leave it to the Aces
23. The Phantom Aces
24. The Message From Mars
25. Coluria
26. Satan's Trance
27. Change Your Mind?
28. Spelling Any Card Called For
29. The Card And Number Mystery
30. The Card And Bag Mystery
The Thirty-First Mystery
Diagrams 1-7
Diagrams 8-26