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2 unusual facts about Carter Beats the Devil


Charles Joseph Carter

A highly fictionalized account of his life can be found in Carter Beats the Devil (ISBN 0-7868-8632-3) by Glen David Gold.

Howard Thurston

Thurston is mentioned and appears briefly in Glen David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil (ISBN 0-7868-8632-3), concerning fellow stage magician Charles J. Carter and the Golden Age of magic in America.


Glen David Gold

Glen David Gold (born 1964) is known as the author of Carter Beats the Devil, a fictionalized biography of Charles Joseph Carter (1874–1936), an American illusionist performing from c.

Minnie Marx

Marx and some of her sons appear briefly as characters in Glen David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil; the narrative identifies her as Minnie Palmer, and only gradually offers clues that the struggling vaudeville act traveling with her are the later-famous Marx Brothers.


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