Sharps and Flats

A complete exposé of the card sharp's methods: marked cards, stacked decks, holdouts and crooked dice, written to protect players and prized by card magicians ever since.

John Nevil Maskelyne, 1894 · Longmans, Green, and Co.. Complete 390-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.

Downloadable video tutorial