Whispers by Jon Racherbaumer

This treatise is a detailed exploration of a glorified location-divination, framed by a whimsical conceit - namely that an inanimate object - a playing card - is the supposed agency that makes the entire trick work. In this regard it was an effort to upgrade an essentially puerile divination effect.

Here is the basic approach or plot: The way the performer learns the identity of a freely selected card is apparently due to enlisting the assistance of another playing card (usually a Queen), which whispers the name of the selection to the magician. The magician then acts as the Queen's proxy and audibly names the selection.

• Introduction
• Ladson Butler
• The Joker Tells (Ladson Butler)
• After The Initial Seed Was Sown
• The Whispering Queen (Harry "Louine")
• The Wise Queen (Thurston)
• Whispering Queen (Harry Kellar)
• Whispering Queen (Joseph Leeming)
• The Wise Queen (Joseph Leeming)
• The Whispering Queen (Edward Victor)
• Card Voice (Ted Annemann)
• The Whispering Queen (Edward Marlo)
• The Snappy Whispering Queen (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Stage Shout (Roy Walton)
• Cries And Whispers (John Bannon)
• Scries And Whispers II (Jon Racherbaumer)
• The Queen Whispers And Whisks Away (Jon Racherbaumer)
• The Whispering Joker (Paul Curry)
• The Joker Reads Minds (Edward Marlo)

1st edition 2019, 50 pages.
word count: 12581 which is equivalent to 50 standard pages of text