When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly ...

Houdini soon brought his show to Ireland and performed in Cork’s Opera House, some evidence also exists of him performing in ...

The famed escapologist had a reputation for death-defying stunts. But his rise to fame and sudden death both came with some ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini shows his handcuffs as he stands in a wooden box on a boat and prepares to be dumped into East River in New York City on July 7, 1912. During this stunt circa 1912 ...

Glory is worried that she has heard nothing from her mother for some weeks – but distraction comes when the Hungarian-American escape artist Harry ... Houdini with a pair of unopenable handcuffs ...