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Houdini's Tour of Australia    by Leann Richards
Price: $1.99 USD. 19120 words. Published on January 12, 2011. .

When escapologist, Harry Houdini toured Australia in 1910, he brought magic, mystique, his wife and an aeroplane. Houdini conquered crowds and nearly caused riots, he escaped straitjackets and shackles and flew through the air. Some said he was supernatural, to others he was a fraud, but Houdini confounded them all.
Houdini's Last Illusion    by Steven Savile
Price: $0.99 USD. 17450 words. Published by BadPress Publishing on January 31, 2011. .

Harry Houdini is a haunted man. Haunted by success; his emotions; and now by some of his compatriots: famed and feted illusionists like himself. The only problem is that they are dead. Houdini knows that time is running out, and before he is ready to die he must perform one final trick, the greatest illusion of his life...
Coffeyville    by C. E. L.  Welsh
Price: $3.99 USD. 16440 words. Published on September 8, 2011. .

A Harry Houdini Short Novel Coffeyville, Kansas, is known as the “Town that stopped the Dalton Gang.” Many shots were fired in the early days of Coffeyville…but there was one lone bullet, fired some years after the Daltons were laid low, that passed unnoticed by most. One man, however, would never forget; a young Harry Houdini, still some years before fame would find him.
Water Baby; Five Novellas    by Carol Bergman
Price: $2.99 USD. 39420 words. Published on January 4, 2012. .

Each story evokes a historical period beginning with the Mayflower's landing in Plymouth to the Second World War. Bergman explores the imagined lives of a Puritan orphan girl, Houdini and Freud, Upstate New York during the building of the Ashokan Reservoir, a young Jewish girl sold into slavery in 19th century Seattle and the lives of Holocaust refugees soon after they arrive in America.