House of Wonders : In Search of Randolph 'Randini' Douglas
House of Wonders : In Search of Randolph 'Randini' Douglas. John Francis Lindley
- Author: John Francis Lindley
- Published Date: 01 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Riverdane
- Book Format: Paperback::40 pages
- ISBN10: 095592510X
- ISBN13: 9780955925108
- Country Congleton, United Kingdom
- Dimension: 149x 210mm
Available for download House of Wonders : In Search of Randolph 'Randini' Douglas. It appears the recently published Randini The Man Who Helped Houdini was not the first book to uncover the story of Randolph Douglas (a Houdini superfan and contemporary who gave Houdini the idea for the suspended straight-jacket escape). Published last year, House of Wonders award wining Cheshire Poet Laureate John Lindley goes in search of Douglas in a series of twenty-five poems Randolph Douglas has already been written about my colleague Ben Jones in a previous blog here, and we know from the questions we get asked that he is a popular subject of interest for our visitors. He is particularly well-known in the magician community and for the museum he ran in Castleton, called the House of Wonders. Randolph Osborne Douglas (31 March 1895
