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Short­ly after, he took a posi­tion as an appren­tice to a lock­smith and learned how to open locks with­out a key! Bored with the con­fines of home, Ehrich ran away at age twelve and joined a cir­cus as an escape artist, renam­ing him­self ​ “Eric the Great.” Return­ing home, he joined his nomadic fam­i­ly in New York City and con­tin­ued to cul­ti­vate his pas­sion for mag­ic as the focus of his life. At age nine, he was hired in his first pro­fes­sion­al capac­i­ty as a ​ “Prince of the Air” to a three-rate cir­cus. His fas­ci­na­tion how­ev­er was always with mag­ic Hou­di­ni would care­ful­ly scru­ti­nize the trav­el­ing cir­cus­es that came to town and per­fect their tricks. The Rab­bi, want­i­ng more for his grow­ing fam­i­ly of six chil­dren, moved the fam­i­ly to Apple­ton, Wis­con­sin and Amer­i­can­ized their last name to ​ “Weiss.” As a young boy, Ehrich tried to con­tribute to the fam­i­ly income and worked odd jobs from sell­ing news­pa­pers to shin­ing shoes. Houdini’s mea­ger begin­nings trace back to Budapest, Hun­gary, where on March 24, 1874, he was born to Rab­bi May­er Samuel and Cecil­ia Weisz and named Ehrich.

Har­ry Hou­di­ni, mas­ter magi­cian and elec­tri­fy­ing escape artist, comes to life in this suc­cinct, yet fas­ci­nat­ing por­tray­al writ­ten by well-known biog­ra­ph­er, David Adler and his son, Michael.