Peter Karl Lamont is a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on the history, theory and performance of magic.
He is the author of The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: The Biography of a Legend, which discusses the Indian rope trick, and The first psychic: the peculiar mystery of a Victorian wizard, which traces the life and times of the "first psychic" Daniel Dunglas Home, a Scottish medium, born in Edinburgh.
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