In contrast to the previous volume, this volume consists almost exclusively of effects. All tips on the technology that can be found in this volume are taught as part of the effects and do not have their own section as in the previous book.

Like the previous volume and the following, this book is full of open photos that show the professor at work and when playing. You will feel like you are sitting with Dai Vernon in the Magic Castle while he shares the stories and experiences of his life.

Originally published in 1988, this text is now available for the first time as a practical eBook! It contains over 50 routines from Vernon, 27 historical photos and 177 illustrations on 245 pages.

contents
Foreword - Bill Larsen
Introduction - Bruce Cervon
Introduction of the author - Stephen Minch
Vernonanan Historical photo portfolio or rare Vernon memorabilia-Robin Young

Chapter One: Lost and Found Department (Card Effects That Revolve Around Finding A Selected Card)

• The Challenge Locations
• The Bridge
• The Dual Crimp
• The Scrape
• The Wallet Punch
• Dual to the death
• By any other name
• The slap trick

Chapter Two: The Garden of Forking Paths (Card Tricks in which the Final Effect Varies Depending on Choices Made by the Spectator)

• Aces to order
• Out of Sight and Mind II
• Four options
• Two-Six-Four Royale

Chapter Three: From Silks to Nuts (Effects that do not Involve Playing Cards)

• The Tale of the Treasury-Worm
• The Daivergent Silk
• The Twirl Link
• The Threadborne Link
• The peripateetic walnuts

Chapter Four: Formal Exchanges (Card Transposition Effects)

• The trick that Cannot Be Reconstructed
• The Loving Couple
• Al ‘n’ dai at the hop
• A Reblocking of “The Jumping Jack”
• Out of uniform

Chapter Five: Card Ciphers (Card Tricks that make use of counting or Numbers)

• The Rendezvous Force
• Why am I here?
• Frisbie Saunders ’Location by the Numbers
• Affinities
• Packet calculator

Chapter Six: Singular Events (Effects that Can’t Easily Be Placed in Other Categories)

• The Intelligent Leader
• Driven to the depths
• The Corsican Climbers
• Punched in the face
• Out of Touch
• Sans index
• Vernon on Edward G. Brown’s “Poker Hand Mystery”
• Aces by proxy
• The Third Color
• Tour through the outback
• The Top-Stock Riffle Reverse
• Larry Jennings ’Eidetic
• Commanding the Colors
• It stand alone
• The Silhouette Change
• A face in the night

Chapter Seven: Sorted Affairs (Card Tricks with pre-pre-saved decks)

• A Sticky Solution
• It's a snap
• Vernon on Gilbreath
• Nerve on edge

Chapter eight: New Wine from Old Bottles (Previously Unpublished effects by some of the magicians vernon Admired)

• Max Malini’s Hypnotic Gaze Divination
• Nate Leipzig’s Two-deck transposition
• Leipzig on the Collins Ace Trick
• Henry Christ’s Vanish for the Collins Ace Trick
• Henry Christ’s Spell Detector
• The Christ Ace Trick