The Bennett Touch

A Book of Magic Routines

by Horace Bennett

"Horace Bennett has a genius for taking a trick, or part of one, that has been in print and making it more workable and adding an extra bit of conviction to the effect. Another specialty of his is the clean up at the end." -Kirk Stiles, MANTRA, Vol. 1 Issue two 1975

Over 30 tricks, sleights and routines are included in this fine book. There are forty-seven full pages of illustrations by John Caddy to show all the details of the magic. Coins and cards predominate, but Bennett also includes stuff with finger rings and rope. Illustrator, Caddy, revisits Bennett’s “Pearl Routine” with a fine stand up version of the effect. Bennett’s trademark is the way he tries to avoid complex sleights through clever routining. The reader will enjoy the plots! Included are socko effects such as: “Back and Forth Sandwich”, “Reality, Illusion, and Magic”, “The Chinese Wand”, “The Glass Eye”, “Fifty Years Practice”, “Follow the Leader Coins-1985″, “Nightmare in the Spaghetti Factory”, and many more! 

Contents Include:

Introduction by Woody Landers

Sleights

• The Bennett Change Over Palm
• The Fake Take Coin Vanish and Coin Switch
• The Hip Pocket Holdout
• The Delayed Downs Palm Vanish
• The Delayed Downs Palm Vanish/Switch
• Delayed Downs palm Toss Switch
• The Tenkai Coin Vanish/Switch
• The Roger Klause Ruse
• The One Hand Coin Switch
• The Table and Chair Deck Switch

Cards

• Change of Mind
• The Ace Detectives
• Back and Forth
• Inversion/Conversion
• Reality, Illusion and Magic
• Eight In The Side Pocket

Coins

• Two to One
• Thrice Transposed
• A Tale of two Cities
• Personality Plus
• The David Copperfield Magic Show
• The Glass Eye
• One Plus One Equals Four
• The Sound Of Magic --Number Two
• Fifty Years Practice
• Follow Those Coins
• Transposition two
• Reflections On A Mirror

Miscellaneous

• Back To The Future
• Nightmare At The Spaghetti Factory
• Koornwinder's Konceit
• Stand Up pearl Routine --John Caddy
• Errata

Details;  The Bennett Touch by Horace Bennett

Illustrated by John Caddy

136 pages, spiral bound, typeset, page size is 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches. 

©1986 by Magic Methods

SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium

A Magic Methods Publication