During a lecture tour of Europe in the early 1980’s, John Mendoza was shown many amazing tricks and moves by his hosts. He took the best of these, plus some by his American friends, and published them in this book. Long out of print, we have a few new copies left. Here are some of the contents:
Contents:
Foreword by Gene Devoe i-ii

Table of Contents iii-iv
Introduction v – vi

1 Francis Pelkey – Olmstead, New York

1 Xerox Card

5 Michael Gerhardt – Kressbronn, West Germany

5 D’Amico Spread Flourish

9 Tabled Ascanio Spread

13 Color Changing Deck

27 Jamy Swiss – Brooklyn, New York

27 The Most Difficult Card Trick in the World Part II

30 The Swiss Movement

45 Dan O’Donoghue – Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland

45 Miracle Ring in Box

59 Bernard Billis – Paris, France

59 Calculated Zarrow

69 Geoffrey Latta – New York, New York

69 Four What?

79 Topsy Turvy Surprise Plus

93 Paviato Aurelio – Milan Italy

93 Impromptu Reverse Matrix

105 Cutting the “Coins”

113 Jim Kahlert – Los Angeles, California

113 Marked Aces All Gone

121 Richard Vollmer – Strasbourg, France

121 Strasbourg Waltz

127 Mystery of the Seven Suspects

133 Mirko Ferrantini – Berlin, West Germany

133 Split Silver

137 Phillippe Warein – Lille, France

137 Coins and the Glass

143 Four Ace Discoveries

149 Ray Mertz – Buffalo, New York

149 R.M. Triumph

154 Hole Coin/Whole Coin

161 Paul Sorrentino – Blacksburg, Virginia

161 Boxcards

167 John F. Mendoza

167 The Strange 20 Card Coincidence

173 Impromptu Tunnel

180 The Scorpio/Gemini Count

185 Bro. John Hamman – St. Louis, Missouri

185 Universal Trio

191 BONUS (uncredited)

191 The One-Card Card Castle