Tale involving Carter, the death of President Warren G. The result is "Carter Beats the Devil" (Hyperion), a zesty, clever He realized he knew nothing about magic, little about the early 20th-century era, not much about Carter.īut Gold escaped from the trap he had set for himself with researchĪnd imagination, and within a couple years he had written a novel. Recalled the poster and his old apartment and wrote two paragraphs of a story about CharlesĬarter. Years later, Gold enrolled in the creative writing program at the Gold was intrigued - particularly when he discovered that Charles Carter was also involved, decades ago, in the building of Gold's Oakland, California, apartment building. The one-sheet was anĪdvertisement for Carter's show, which concluded with an act called Across the table from him, holding four kings, was a somewhatīuffoonish representation of the devil. The poster, which dated from the early 1920s, showed a nattilyĭressed magician, Carter the Great, holding a poker hand of fourĪces. (CNN) - About 10 years ago, Glen David Gold's father gave him a
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