“She had to protect her reputation by proving she was really a medium,” Thurlow said, “and he had to protect his reputation by proving that she was a fraud”.
Ultimately, Houdini won that challenge, and that triumph did not sit well with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He had taken Margery and her husband, Dr Le Roi Crandon, under his wing to proselytise spiritualism, the belief that death was not the end.
“I don’t think Doyle himself was involved” in Houdini’s death, Sloman said. “But he was ruthless and he was a true believer. God knows what he would stop at to get the spiritualist agenda promoted.”
—Spencer Rumsey / LATWP
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