The following is an article from history.com “Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, dies of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital. Twelve days before, Houdini ...

Illusionist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926. Multiple theories about what actually happened persist a century later.

Thus went the famous boast of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874 and brought to this country by his impoverished parents as Ehrich Weiss two years later.

NEW YORK — Eighty years after his death, the name Harry Houdini remains synonymous with escape under the most dire circumstances. But Houdini, the immigrants’ son whose death-defying career made him ...

The circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini's sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he often performed death-defying stunts. Despite a medical explanation, rumors that the escape artist was ...

NEW YORK -- For all his death-defying stunts, Harry Houdini couldn't escape the Grim Reaper: He died on Halloween 1926, apparently from a punch to the stomach that ruptured his appendix. However, ...

When journalist Joe Posnanski decided to write a book about the great magician and escape artist Harry Houdini he created a Google Alert to ping him when Houdini was mentioned somewhere. That was ...

New York - The circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini's sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he performed death-defying stunts. Despite a medical explanation, rumours that the escape artist ...

NEW YORK – The circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini's sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he often performed death-defying stunts. Despite a medical explanation, rumors that the escape ...

FARGO - Thad Ellsworth caught the magic "bug" in 1983, when his third-grade teacher gave the class a reading assignment on Harry Houdini. The Bismarck native asked his mom for a magic set that ...

Jeff Nathanson has signed to write and direct the adaptation of William Kalush and Larry Sloman's Harry Houdini biography "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero" for ...