Zanetti sends out his chief detective, Van Haarlem, on this job. Steinway explains that he must beg her forgiveness and hear her voice. Herman Steinway offers Zanetti one million dollars if he will produce his deceased wife, in the flesh, for just a few moments. Zanetti works a trip of psychology on the old man and establishes his faith. HERMAN STEINWAY, an aged millionaire, is being victimized in his belief in the spiritualistic powers of Zanetti, notorious fake medium. This week, I share Chapter 3 (Prologue) of 8: The short novel (8 Chapters) was serialized over eight weeks in various Newspapers. Through the whole fabric of the story there move the amazing characters of the half-world and underworld spies “snowbirds”, “lobby gows”, “stoppers”, “floppers”, “controls”, and “falls”, whom only Houdini can write about, because his special investigations have made him know them all and how they work as links in a chain system which is one of the weirdest forces for fraud and evil in the world. Houdini builds his story about the monstrous figure of Zanetti - genius faker, and arch rogue he shows the methods by which even profound scientists have been hoodwinked by prophets of the occult and materializers of demons and spirits, and tells of the private lives often rivaling Babylon in abandon and luxury– of those who strip both rich and poor by mystery and mummery. Harry Houdini wrote a short novel in 1925, a romantic detective thriller, called The Zanetti Mystery (ghostwritten of course).
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