Just teasing! Houdini actually wrote a book on exposing gambling and card cheats, among other types of psychic and spiritualism scams, and was kind of the Penn Gillette of his day in that regard. (How many of you know that Penn writes for "Skeptical Inquirer" and "Skeptic" magazines?)

I actually only didn't know 2 of the people on the list, the sportsbettor/horse guy or whatever he bet, and the roulette guy. He's an old reference, though, since his heyday was apparently from 1904 to 1911. I didn't know Johnny Moss was a convicted child molestor, though. Mostly I just know him from the story of the months-long poker game with Nick the Greek at Binions.

Bettie