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Harry Houdini: (How to Be a) Smooth Criminal

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Harry Houdini's collection at the Library of Congress shows that he worked so extensively with police that he wrote a handbook on how smart criminals worked. It was called, "The Right Way to Do Wrong."