Focusing on the great close-up magician Eddie Fechter, who reigned at The Forks Hotel in Buffalo NY & started Fechter’s Finger Flinging Frolic, an exclusive invitation-only convention for top close-up workers. Mostly card tricks, but some other excellent intimate miracles as well.

Contents:

1 Chapter 1 Magic from the Fork’s Hotel

1 I’ve Got a Surprise for You

5 Impromptu Torn and Restored Cigarette

10 Be Honest What Is It?

15 Goblin Tube

17 Fechter’s Aces

24 Aces Up or Down

30 You’ve Been Real Good to Me

34 Waterfall

41 Chapter 2 Request Tricks

41 6-4-5 Coin

50 Eight To Twelve

54 Card On the Ceiling

61 Fechter’s Brainwave

67 Chapter 3 Peeks

67 Introduction to Peeks

69 Peek Force

74 Tiniest Peek I’ve Ever Seen

76 Peek and Key Combination

78 Glimpse

81 Peek Subtlety

83 Turn Around Peek Control

87 Fechter’s Fan Glimpse

89 Cover for Peek Control

92 Two Card Control From Peek

95 Eight Selections

105 Chapter 4 Miscellaneous

105 Flying Locator

112 Small Stock False Shuffle

114 Gambler’s Slip Cut

117 Auto Jog Control

121 Spring Card Revelation

124 Fechter’s Bluff Pass

128 Bar Towel Force

130 Tips, Hints, and Bits of Business

137 Chapter 5 Previous Offerings

137 Top Card Reversal

142 A Magical Prediction

144 Knockout Prediction