The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 3 (Stephen Minch)

1989
Work of Dai Vernon

219 pages (Hardcover), published by L&L Publishing
Illustrated with drawings by Tom Gagnon.
Language: English

(81 entries)

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Dai Vernon	Matching the Cards Forerunner		Variations My Cup of Tea (Harry Lorayne, 2001)	xii	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind/Aces Effects / Matching the Cards → Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards
Stephen Minch	Riffle Force	with credit information		xv	→ Cards / Sleights / Force / Riffle Force
Dai Vernon	Matching the Cards Forerunner II			xvi	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind/Aces Effects / Matching the Cards
Sam Leo Horowitz	Blindfold Poker Deal Variation			xvii	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Blindfold Poker & Think-a-Card
Sam Leo Horowitz	Ambitious Card Sequence	duplicates		xvii	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Routines
Sam Leo Horowitz	Mental Spelling	progressive set up		xvii	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice → Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Thought-of Cards
Sam Leo Horowitz	Faced Deck			xvii	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Faced Deck
Sam Leo Horowitz	Longitudinal Crimp			xviii	→ Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Miscellaneous
Sam Leo Horowitz	Mental Reverse	two methods		xxiv	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Mental Reverse
Dai Vernon	Back Transpo	two duplicates from different decks change place		xxvi	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / Two Card Transposition
Theodore Annemann	One Way Location	two times		xxviii	→ Cards / Principles / One Way / Miscellaneous → Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Sam Leo Horowitz	Jack Back	strange effect		xxxi	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / Two Card Transpo with Delays or Revelations
Louis Zingone	Two Deck Prediction	two		xxxiii	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction
Unknown	Gambler's Bubble Peek			xxxvi	→ Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Top or near Top
Louis Zingone	Billet Switch			xxxviii	→ Billet / Switches
Dai Vernon	Subway Gambler's Palm	bottom to right, general information		1	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Gambler's Flat Palm
Dai Vernon	The Contortion Palm			3	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Gambler's Flat Palm → Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Bottom
Dr. Jacob Daley	Face-Lift Addition	cop to under deck, table edge	Related to Table Edge Addition (Edward Marlo, 1983) Underhanded Scoop Add (Edward Marlo, 1992)	5	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Replacements (all positions except Classic Palm) → Cards / Sleights / Additions / Table Edge
Dai Vernon	The Lilliput Palm	small packet handling		8	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Gambler's Flat Palm → Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Top
Dr. James William Elliott	An Historical Note on the Dr. Elliott Top Palm		Related to To Palm a Number of Cards from the Top (Jean Hugard, 1935) A Number of Cards (Unknown, 1938)	11	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Top
Dai Vernon	Revolving Palm-Replacement			13	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Replacement
Arthur Finley	The Finley Diagonal Palm Shift Revisited	clarifications		15	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Center
Dai Vernon	Flat Top	with replacement		16	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Gambler's Flat Palm → Cards / Sleights / Palming / Replacements (all positions except Classic Palm)
Dai Vernon	Flat Top Switch	using flat palm		25	→ Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Double Lift Substitutes → Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous
Dai Vernon	The Spring-Loaded Tip-Over Change			27	→ Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Tip-Over Switch
Herb Zarrow	The Zarrow Block Addition Move		Variations Le CABDD (Yves Carbonnier, 2019)	30	→ Cards / Sleights / Additions / from the Top of the deck
Herb Zarrow	A Note on Zarrow's Revolving Aces	spectator says stop four times while riffling		35	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind/Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind
Herb Zarrow	Revolving Force			35	→ Cards / Sleights / Force / Cut Forces / Miscellaneous
Dai Vernon	Back Breaker	obtaining break under top card		37	→ Cards / Sleights / Break / Basic Break Handlings → Cards / Sleights / Break / Break Finesses
Harry Riser	Dribble Control	to second from bottom		38	→ Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous
Dr. Jacob Daley	The Hair's-Breadth Stall	delaying a control		39	→ Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Peek forms → Cards / Sleights / Jog Techniques / Retaining & Setting a Jog / Hands
Dai Vernon, Cy Endfield	Vernon on the "Endfield" Slip Cut			41	→ Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Slip Cuts / Top / Hands
Dai Vernon	On the Hay False Dovetail Shuffle	variation on Henry Hay Shuffle		44	→ Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle in the hands / False
Dai Vernon	A Table Pass			50	→ Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Table Passes / Two-Handed
Dai Vernon	Spellatron			57	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous → Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Down-Under/Australian Deal
Dai Vernon	Cut and Spell	a card is instantly spelled to from a shuffled deck	Related to X-Ray Spelling (Edward Marlo, 1962) Controlled Spelling (Harry Lorayne, 1973)	59	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Random Cards
Morris Loewy	Lowe Palm		Variations Multi-Card Lowe Top Palm (Tom Gagnon, 2011)	60	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Left Hand / Top
Dai Vernon	Caught in the Stretch	card is extracted		63	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Rubber Band & Cards → Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Rubber Band
Dai Vernon	If the Suit Fits...			67	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location
Bruce Cervon	Trans Mitt	while spectator holds cards		70	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) Across / Classic & Variations
Dai Vernon	Interlock			72	→ Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Interlock
Dai Vernon	Given the Slip	four cards at face of packets	Related to Pile-to-Pile Transfer (Unknown, 1967) Banker & Broker (Stanley Collins, 2000) The Bank Plays Poker (J. W. Sarles, 2012) Variations (Vernon + Sadowitz)^2 (Tomas Blomberg, 2014)	75	→ Cards / Sleights / Palming / Lateral Palm → Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards → Cards / Sleights / Palming / Gambler's Cop / Cop Position / Right Hand → Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Given the Slip (Banker-Broker)
Dai Vernon	Will-O'-the-Wisp	vanish and recovery via handwashing		81	→ Cards / Manipulation / Routines → Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Bare Handed → Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Single Card
Dai Vernon	The Vernon Deck Vanish and Recovery			93	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck
Dai Vernon	Joker Monte	unusual method, cards in glasses	Related to "Final Choice” (Peter Warlock, Abracadabra, Vol. 42 No. 1072, August 1966, p. 84)	99	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Dai Vernon	Joker Monte - Gaff			102	→ Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Eccentric Gaffs
Dai Vernon, Carmen D'Amico	Three in the Hand, One in the Bush	pseudo thirds and seconds		105	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing → Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Pseudo & Impromptu Duplicate
Dai Vernon	A Straight Deal	pseudo fifth,... deal	Variations Crooked Dealing (Nick Trost, Al Thatcher, 1997) Three Jacks and a Full House (Nick Trost, 2009)	108	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing → Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Three-Jacks Deal & Repeat Poker Deal
Dai Vernon	The David and Goliath Deal	aces shoot out of the deck, hidden rubber band		111	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Rubber Band & Cards → Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Miscellaneous → Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Miscellaneous
Fred Black	Black's Stack			113	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Stacking / Riffle Stacking
Dai Vernon	Stacked to Formula			116	→ Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Stacking → Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Stacking / Overhand
Dai Vernon	Setting the Bridge			118	→ Cards / Principles / Mark a Position → Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Bridge (multiple Cards)
Dai Vernon	On your Metal	fingerring and coin both in handkerchiefs		123	→ Ring / Finger Rings / Transposition → Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Coin and Other object
Dai Vernon	All Sound and Fabric	through table done with silk	Variations Going Down (Curtis Kam, 2007)	128	→ Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Silk
Nate Leipzig, Dai Vernon	Right Where?	coin is put in fist	Inspired by "Right There" (Nate Leipzig, 1963)	130	→ Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish/Reproduction Routines / Bare Handed → Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Single Coin Vanishes / False Transfers - Put
Dai Vernon	Deep Back Clip			132	→ Coin / Sleights / Palming / Back Clip Handlings
Dai Vernon	Two Techniques with the Purse Palm			135	→ Coin / Sleights / Palming / Palm Positions
Dai Vernon	The Hand-to-Hand Vanish	purse palm		135	→ Coin / Sleights / Vanish / Single Coin Vanishes / "Practical" Vanishes - DON'T USE THIS ANYMORE
Dai Vernon	The Purse Palm Load			137	→ Coin / Sleights / Transfers / Hand Loads
Dai Vernon	Pastiche on Ramsay, with Variations	"handwashing" moves		139	→ Coin / Sleights / Palming / Position Transfers
Dai Vernon	On the Origins of the Steeplechase Flourish			147	→ Coin / Sleights / Flourishes
Dai Vernon	Folding Money			149	→ Bill / Short Changing
Dai Vernon	Cashing a Check	check is torn, burned in flash, changes to bill		156	→ Bill / Appearance & Production → Light & Fire / Flash Paper & Material
"Vester" Adams	Flight of Fabric	silk to pocket effect		161	→ Pickpocketing / Loading the Spectator → Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Arthur Finley	Remote Control	spectator riffle shuffles after control, cards spread before pushed together	Related to The Finley Strategem (Arthur Finley, 2015) Variations Remote Rosetta Control (Rajneesh Madhok, 2019)	166	→ Cards / Principles / Riffle Shuffle Concepts / Partial Stack → Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties
Sam Leo Horowitz	Look Homeward, Angel	card travels from bottom of deck to named postion reversed	Also published here Look Homeward, Angel (Sam Leo Horowitz, 1987)	168	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Miscellaneous
Henry Christ	Obstinate Pasteboards	cards turn over without the magician wanting so		171	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Miscellaneous
Henry Christ	Christ Reversal	similar to Larreverse	Also published here Christ Reverse (Henry Christ, 1994) Henry Christ Reverse (Henry Christ, 2013)	171	→ Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active
Faucett Ross	Twice Turned			175	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Simple Card Turnovers
Faucett Ross	Overhand Shuffle Reverse			175	→ Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active
Mac MacDonald	Lost Chord	Piano Trick variation		177	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Packet to Packet
Dr. Jacob Daley	Vis-à-vis			180	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Faced Deck
Dr. Jacob Daley	Select Transposition	one card changes to selection		185	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / Two Card Transpo with Delays or Revelations
Dr. Jacob Daley	Interlocking Setup	ten cards		187	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice
Tenkai Ishida	Phoenix Bill Vanish	bill is placed in sheet of paper		193	→ Bill / Vanish
Lawrence "Larry" Grey	Cut to Perfection			199	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card found at total of Packet or named number → Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection
Jay Ose	Presentation for the Glass through Table			203	→ Glass / Through Table (Paper Cover)
John Scarne	Doppelgänger Location	great conditions, weak revelation, wrong method according to Fulves, see reference	Related to The Probable Outcome (John Scarne, 1995)	205	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
John Scarne	Western Union Trick	telegram, for real method sie "Remote Control" reference	Related to Initial Encounter (Karl Fulves, 1971) Remote Control (John Scarne, 1994) Informant (Karl Fulves, 1999)	208	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Anything → Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Envelope(s)
Dai Vernon	What's-the-Value Solitaire		Related to Half a Headache (Ken Beale, 1982)	215	→ Cards / Principles / Card Counting / Clocking → Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Naming missing card(s) → Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Solitaire / To Play at Home
Dai Vernon	Think-of-a-card Solitaire			219	→ Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Solitaire / To Play at Home

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