Peter Karl Lamont is a research fellow at the

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, working on the

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and

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of magic."Peter Lamont"

. He is a magician, Member of The Magic Circle, and a former president of the

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Magic Circle. He has performed and lectured across the world. 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

List of works

Books

* Lamont, P. & Wiseman, R. (1999). ''Magic in Theory: An Introduction to the Theoretical and Psychological Elements of Conjuring'' (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press) * Lamont, P. (2004). ''The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: Biography of a Legend'' (London: Little, Brown) * Lamont, P. (2005). ''The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard'' (London: Little, Brown) * Lamont, P. (2013). ''Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Papers

*Lamont, P. (2004). ''Spiritualism and a Mid-Victorian Crisis of Evidence''. Historical Journal 47 (4): 897–920. *Lamont, P; Bates, C. (2007). ''Conjuring Images of India in Nineteenth-Century Britain''. Social History 32 (3): 308–324.

References

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