The Vernon Chronicles The Lost Inner Secrets by Stephen Minch and Dai Vernon (Volume 1)

Contents

• Foreword (Dai Vernon)
• Introduction (Bruce Cervon)
• Introduction (Larry Jennings)
• Author’s Introduction (Stephen Minch)
• A Visit with Dai Vernon (Elizabeth Wilson)

Chapter One: Sleights, Tips and Technique

• On the Turn of a Card
• On the Corner-Short
• On the Scallop-Short
• Enlarging a Break
• Breaking at the Injog
• Rotating the Break
• The Vernon All-Around Square Up
• A curious Turnover-Pass
• The Vernon One-Handed Shift
• Glimpse from the Twirl Cut
• Subway Transfer for Two
• Hindu Transportation
• The Hindu Double-Undercut
• The Vernon Multiple False-Cut
• The Vernon Simple False-Cut
• On the Push-Through Shuffle
• Three Loose Lifts
• On Tabling a Double Card
• On the Top Palm
• Capping a Packet
• Replacing the Top Palm
• After the Bottom Palm
• The Arthur Finley Diagonal Palm Shift
• The Packet-Display Palm
• Lightening the Load
• On the Palm Change
• On the Side Steal
• The Strip-Out Addition
• A New Peek Control
• The Shuttle-Cut Control
• The Perfect-Pitch False Count
• The Transfer Force
• The Breather Crimp
• On the Second Deal
• The “New Theory” Double Deal

Chapter Two: Among the Amaranths

• No Sleight Triumph
• The Second Campaign
• In Uniform
• The Ace Addembly
• The Slow-Motion Aces – A Reassessment
• Aces in Excelsis
• The Fingerprint Card Trick
• A Match Made in Cincinnati
• The Aeroplane Card Trick
• The Two-Thirteen Trick
• The Unadulterated Cutting the Aces
• Spellout with a Hitch
• The Rising Sun
• Oil Slick
• Notes on the Three-Card Monte

Chapter Three: Dreams of Mammon

• The Persistence-of-Vision Coin Vanish
• Five Coins and a Glass
• Silk and Silver
• Slipping the Jit
• Crossed Destinies