Lost Magicians

For many magicians the name L'Homme Masque means nothing. But a read through Camille Gaultier's Magic Without Apparatus will bring you across a number of entries attributed to this mysterious masked man. So, I ask, why has nobody written a book specifically on L'Homme Masque? His material and character is strong enough to justify further investigation into biographical details, effects performed by him, who he really was, etc. Now, that being said, I must acknowledge Genii magazine for doing a cover issue on our Peruvian pal. For those interested the back issue is, July 2000. In this article we discover a remarkable fact about L'Homme Masque, he trained both of his hands in accomplishing every sleight he did! This issue of Genii has the most information I have found but still why has their not been a single volume dedicated to this miraculous conjurer of yesteryear? Well I am certainly not an authority nor am I in any position to take up a project of such magnitude! But I do hope that someone decides to pursue this unusual masked man and share their findings in a book for the magic fraternity. Limited to 500 copies of course!