Master Yehudi takes the boy to a lone house in the countryside to teach Walt how to fly.

Throughout the story, they encounter real-life dangers like the Ku Klux Klan and the Chicago Mob.

Walt accepts the offer, and starts the terrific journey to the art of loft and levitation.

Walt is a racist and is shocked when he meets his new housemates: the Ethiopian boy Aesop, the Indian Mother Sioux and the Jewish Master Yehudi.

He eventually accepts this diversity and focuses on the thirty-three steps towards the skill of loft and levitation.

After many humiliating tasks including living burial, cutting of a finger joint and being struck by lightning, he experiences levitation for the first time.

Master Yehudi and Walt, whose aversion against the victims had changed to love, are emotional wrecks.

Master Yehudi's grief continues for months and he stays distant from Walt and Mrs Witherspoon.

On the way towards Hollywood, they are attacked by Uncle Slim and he robs them of all their money, leaving Master Yehudi fatally injured.

Walt climbs up the criminal ladder and eventually opens his own nightclub named Mr Vertigo.

Walt starts to lose his mind and ends up threatening the professional baseball player Dizzy Dean.

Walt becomes his own self again after Master Yehudi's death: he starts dwelling the streets and his old dialect returns.

On one side, Master Yehudi is a business man with interest in nothing but profit numbers, shown by the plans he makes for Walt and Aesop.

The crippled Ethiopian boy Aesop was rescued by Master Yehudi and he received a high quality education.

Her grandfather was the brother of Sitting Bull and she was a rider in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

A group called White Anglo-Saxon Protestant tried to reduce the number of immigrants to the US and the Ku Klux Klan tried to get rid of people who they considered to be a threat to the USA.

[2] The latter is responsible for a switching point in the novel, as the Ku Klux Klan kills Aesop and Mother Sioux and puts the house on fire.

Master Yehudi chooses Walt to learn the skill of levitation because of his poor education.

Master Yehudi wanted to make Aesop an intelligent boy and therefore gave him the best education and taught him how to read.

In 2009, Audible.com produced an audio version of Mr. Vertigo, narrated by Kevin Pariseau, as part of its Modern Vanguard line of audiobooks.