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Charles Joseph Carter (June 14, 1874 – February 13, 1936) was an American stage magician, also known as Carter the Great.

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Most books are a matter of taste, but there are also the rare few that are so much fun it's hard to imagine anyone not liking them. In the latter category is Glen David Gold's 2001 historical novel Carter Beats the Devil, which takes us back to the golden era of stage magicians in 1920s America.

The novel is a fictionalised take on the biography of real-life illusionist Charles Carter, who was briefly linked with the sudden death of US President Warren Harding. The story flashes back to Carter's childhood and his beginning on the circuit of vaudeville magic. In one scene, his career seems to end before it really gets started when the apprentice Carter upstages a lead magician named Mysterioso:

"So," Julius said now, "I heard you got canned."

"News travels."

"That character Einstein had it wrong: gossip travels faster than the speed of light," he growled in his East Ninety Third Street accent. "Here." He handed Carter a pint of whiskey.

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Charles Joseph Carter

American stage magician

Charles Joseph Carter (June 14, 1874 – February 13, 1936) was an American stage magician, also known as Carter the Great.

Biography

He was born on June 14, 1874, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and developed an interest in magic from a young age. Carter's first theatrical experience occurred at the Herzog's museum and Pat Harris' Masonic Temple in Baltimore at the age of 10, where he appeared as "Master Charles Carter the Original Boy Magician".^[1] Due to stiff competition from the number of magic acts on the American stages at the time, Carter opted to pursue his career abroad, where he gained fame.

Among the highlights of Carter's stage performances during his career were the classic "sawing a woman in half" illusion (an elaborate surgical-themed version with "nurses" in attendance), making a live elephant disappear and "cheating the gallows", where a shrouded Carter would vanish, just as he dropped at the end of a hangman's noose. He was also known for devising acts that were inspired by recent events tha

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Carter Beats the Devil

2001 novel by Glen David Gold

Carter Beats the Devil is a historicalmysterythriller novel by Glen David Gold centred on the American stage magician Charles Joseph Carter (1874–1936).

Novel's title

The title of the novel comes from Carter's evening length stage show, the third act of which is called "Carter Beats the Devil" and features Carter in a magician's duel with an assistant made up as the Devil.

Summary

The 1920s was a golden age for stage magic and Charles Carter is an American stage magician at the height of his fame and powers. At the climax of his latest touring stage show, Carter invites United States PresidentWarren G. Harding on to stage to take part in his act. In front of an amazed audience, Carter proceeds to chop the president into pieces, cut off his head, and feed him to a lion, before restoring him to health. The show is a great success, but two hours later the president is dead, and Carter finds himself the centre of some very unwelcome attention indeed.

Plot

This novel is a fictionalised biograp