So what happened to Houdinis' derringer?

[Tom Fury]

Did it disappear? Just read he carried one later in his life.
Thanks, TF

 

[stonecutter2]

It's on a table at a local gun show with Hitler's Luger.

 

[Midwest]

It was haunted and it had to be exorcised.
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[Wanderling]

I read that Arthur Conan-Doyle may have had a hand in Houdini's death. So perhaps his derringer is at 221B Baker Street, London

 

[Tommygunn]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had nothing to do with Houdini's death.

 

[Nom de Forum]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had nothing to do with Houdini's death.

Thats right. Everyone knows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a fictional character. It was Sherlock Holmes who arranged Houdini's death. Holmes figured out that Houdini was really Doctor Moriarty in disguise.

 

[Tommygunn]

Thats right. Everyone knows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a fictional character. It was Sherlock Holmes who arranged Houdini's death. Holmes figured out that Houdini was really Doctor Moriarty in disguise.

All right. I hereby officially and publicly apologize to The High Road members for causing this thread to go sideways.
I didn't realize it would get this silly so quickly.

Mea culpa. Mea Maxima Culpa.

 

[Wanderling]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had nothing to do with Houdini's death.

Actually, he may have had something to do with it.

Houdini and Doyle were friends. Doyle was deeply involved into a Spiritualist movement (talking with ghosts basically) and arranged a "seance" for Houdini to talk to his dead mother, whom he was very close to and whose death was a severe blow to him. The "medium" was Doyle's wife. The seance was a fraud (or perhaps somewhat subconscious acting on part of Lady Conan-Doyle), Houdini, being an expert trickster himself, immediately realized it and was very offended. He held back for a while but ended up exposing the fraud and the whole Spiritualism, and exposing not only the Doyle's wife but some other prominent "mediums". He was seen as the main enemy of the movement, and in one of Conan-Doyle's letters there was a reference to Houdini soon paying the price for his attacks on Spiritualism. Just a few months later, he was killed. Supposedly from a ruptured appendix due to being hit in the stomach, but there's been strong speculations that he was poisoned in the Detroit hospital. Look it up, it's an interesting read.

 

[Robert]

Nope.