Paul Heller

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Freer of St. Albans

The magic inventor was a small-town boy, and that town was St. Albans.

Paul Heller

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Charlie Winn’s Educated Pig

This pig, a 19th-century American star of fairgrounds, appeared to be a mathematician, a linguist, and a mindreader.

Paul Heller

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His name, “Thimblerig,” comes from the crooked scam of the old shell game in which the con man places a pea under one of three thimbles and quickly manipulates them to confuse the sucker who bets he can guess under which thimble the pea lies.

Paul Heller

Freer of St. Albans

Charlie Winn’s Educated Pig

Thimblerig: America’s Gambler