The long awaited book ‘Maurice Fogel In Search of the Sensational’ written by Chris Woodward and Richard Mark, edited by Max Maven, has now been published by Hermetic Press and is available direct from Chris Woodward at £36.00 plus £5.25 postage & packing in the UK at the email address below. US customers should contact Richard Mark at the address shown at the foot of this page.

Maurice Fogel was born in 1911 in the east end of London, the eldest of  seven children. He was introduced to near neighbour Albert Marchinski, better known as Rameses the Royal Illusionist, and it was this work as his assistant that taught him all about showmanship.

Read all about his early days with Rameses in Southend, his time in the army, in ‘Stars in Battledress’ and the first time he offered to perform The Bullet Catch not knowing a method or even how he would achieve this feat!

Read about his brush with the press, his time with Front Page Personalities and up and coming stars Morecambe & Wise.

How he unwittingly predicted the end of the war, and his correspondence with The White House, The President of The United States, The Russian Embassy on how he could win it!

His favourite ‘signature’ performance pieces the Change in the Pocket, Invisible Card, Headline Hunter, Bewitched Bottled and Bewildered, Cheating the Gallows & Russian Roulette and many more of his much-loved items are all detailed in this exciting book.

Read about how he cheated death more than twice. Learn the secrets from the master of publicity. His four bulging scrapbooks are testament to the fact if he could do it you too could get publicity from almost anything.

Also available, a Limited Edition & numbered Fogel Mirror  (there are only 70) are still available and also a Limited Edition deck of Fogel Playing Cards and an accompanying booklet ‘The Fogel Card Collection’ with contributions by Maurice Fogel, Marc Salem, Max Maven, Jon Racherbaumer, Richard Mark, Pat Page, & Burt Sperber amongst others.

Contact Chris Woodward in the UK on c.woodward@tesco.net or Richard Mark in the USA on rimark@pol.net for further details.