Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle: a friendship split by spiritualism

The author and the illusionist might seem an odd couple, but a shared interest in the afterlife made for an unlikely bond and a bitter rift. In 1920, two of the biggest celebrities of the age met for the first time. One was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famed creator of the great detective Sherlock Holmes, and the other was Harry Houdini, the illusionist and escapologist...
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