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040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a133 .91 092 JAH
100			_aJaher, David _eAuthor
245			_aThe Witch of Lime Street : _bSeance, Seduction and Haudini in the Spirit World / _cDavid Jaher
300			_a436 pages ; _billustrations : _c20 cm.
504			_aindex.
520			_aHistory comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish-flu epidemic.
650			_aReligion
655			_aNonfiction
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