Goldfinger: Stand Up Coin Mysteries by John McLachlan

Develop your coin magic skills and presentations.

John McLachlan, and six of his magic colleagues in Toronto, present a 112 page eBook of coin magic to help you enchant and entertain. They begin with a dozen relatively easy Cool Moves which can be used almost immediately for impromptu quick effects at the coffee shop or in small groups. These are also used as building blocks for the more than a dozen Performance Pieces. (It is assumed the reader knows basic coin moves such as palming and your time is not wasted by repeating what most magicians know.) There are, however, some astonishing moves described in detail. Learn from the styles of the seven performers who contributed to the book and who teach you their methods for Three Fly with regular silver dollars, a Hopping Halfs type effect with ordinary coins, an unbelievable coin change, a scenario about the type of acrobats used in Bond films, a nightmare in which you are constantly one coin short and a compelling finish as dreamland approaches as well as other mysteries.

1st edition 2012, 112 pages.

(All moves and routines by John McLachlan unless noted differently.)

Table of Contents

COOL MOVES


Victory Vanish
Victory Coin Switch
Victory Click Pass (Two methods)
Thumb Down Coin Production
Push-off Shuttle Pass
Shuttle Touchdown
Tip-up Coin Switch
Twirl Change
(James Alan) A Pretty Spellbound Change
(Luiz Castro) Speed Vanish
(Luiz Castro) Castro Switch
PERFORMANCE PIECES



Two Coins in the Hand
As Time Goes By – Words for Two Coins
Coin through Glass
Parkour Monsieur
All that Glitters
(James Alan) Start and Finish with Silver Dollars
(Ariel Frailich) The Five-Second Coin Trick
(David Peck) Magneto
(David Peck) The Center Folds
(Luiz Castro) Three Fly
(Luiz Castro) Three Coin Change
(Mysterion) Charon's Change
(Phil Pivnik) One Coin Short
As Dreamland Approaches
Bibliography

word count: 28628 which is equivalent to 114 standard pages of text