Ganson, Lewis: Dai Vernon's Ultimate Card Secrets
©1995 L&L Publishing
Hardcover, 1862 pages

Comments ( Uli Weigel): The biggest book of the "Inner Secrets"-Series. Only exceptionally good stuff, no fillers. Effects and techniques of Vernon and many other well known friends of the Professor, like Larry Jennings, Roy Walton, Alex Elmsley, to name a few. Highly recommended.

Contents:

1 Foreword

7 Chapter 1: Starting Right


15 Section One: Card Effects

17 Chapter 2: Matched Spellout

23 Chapter 3: The Perfect Circle of Cards

27 Chapter 4: Secrets

31 Chapter 5: Do As I Do

37 Chapter 6: Black and Red Puzzle

41 Chapter 7: Mental Spell

45 Chapter 8: Ten Gives Three

49 Chapter 9 The Magic of Larry Jennings
49 Tell-Tale Aces

59 Chapter 10: Larreverse

67 Chapter 11: Gambler's Triumph

75 Chapter 12: The Changing of the Guard

83 Chapter 13: Monarch's Quartette

89 Chapter 14: Les Cartes Diaconis

95 Chapter 15: Running the Scale

99 Chapter 16: Pure Mathematics

103 Chapter 17: Slow Motion Card Vanish

110 Section Two - Card Sleights and Moves

112 Chapter 18: Vernon on the Pass
112 Standard Pass
114 The Black Pass
116 Location Pass
117 Sprong's Pass
118 Fan Pass Transformation

121 Chapter 19: Vernon on Table Passes
121 First Method
122 Second Method
123 Mexican Joe's Table Pass
124 Charlie Miller's Table Pass

128 Chapter 20: After Peeking
128 Pressure Fan
129 Spread Location
131 Shuffle to Top
132 Double Peep Control
132 Three Break Control
134 Multiple Peek Control
134 Transferring the Break
135 Spectator Finds His Own Card
137 Adaption of Greek Break

141 Chapter 21: One Handed Shuffles
141 Benzon's Shuffle
142 Vernon's Shuffle

145 Chapter 22: Card Placement
145 Vernon's Placement
146 John McCormick's Penetration

150 Chapter 23: Handling a Short Card
150 Locating a Short Card
150 The Corner Short
150 Vernon's Method of Handling

155 Chapter 24: Magic Castle Moves
155 All Around Square Up
157 Jenning's Top Palm
159 Key Card Placement
159 Small Packet Glide
161 Rooklyn Top Palm

165 Chapter 25: More Useful Sleights & Moves
165 Single Shuffle Control
165 Spreading Six Cards as Five
166 Key Card Locacation
168 Cold Deck Cut

172 Chapter 26: Two Sleights by Dr. Elliott
172 Bottom Deal
174 Favourite Break Control

175 Section Three: Friends of Dai Vernon

177 Chapter 27: Magic from Britain
177 Slippery Aces (Jack Avis)
182 Double Prediction (Alex Elmsley)
183 Face Your Brothers (Alex Elmsley)
186 Last Word Four Aces (Francis Haxton)
190 The Innocent Cheat (Fred Lowe)
193 Thought of Card Across (Peter Warlock)
198 Fellow Travellers (Roy Walton)

203 Chapter 28: Magic from Canada
203 Pivot Change (Ross Bertram)
205 Bottom Steal & Recovery (Ross Bertram)

209 Chapter 29: Magic from Holland
209 The Three Jokers (Fred Kaps)
213 Ups and Downs (Rink)
216 Find the Ace (Eddie Taytelbaum)
220 Infallible Force (Eddie Taytelbaum)

226 Chapter 30: Magic From Ireland
226 Vernons Variant (Dai Vernon)
228 Emerald Isle Aces (Vernon -Ross- Lambert)
229 Swivelleroo (Hubert Lambert)

233 Chapter 31: Magic from U.S.A.
233 Card Transposition (Francis Carlyle)
235 You Get It (Gerald Kosky)
237 One Pack "Do As I Do" (Jay Ose)
239 Sleight of Mind (Bill Simon)