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

Houdini lures master magician Harry Kellar out of retirement to perform in a benefit at the New York Hippodrome for the families of the men killed when a German U-boat sank the transport "Antilles." ...

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 ...

Harry Houdini around 1907 (credit ... In the end, a combination of untreated appendicitis and a blow to the abdomen killed Houdini, which, in Timofeyeva’s eyes, was senseless, if not a tad ...