Close-Up Assassin

An 88-page, softcover book devoted exclusively to the magic of Richard Sanders, written by David Acer and published by the Camirand Academy of Magic in 1998. The book comes packaged with a performance-only companion video, designed to give the reader a sense of how the material looks in real-time, and, while still available, has never been reissued with a DVD in place of the tape.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Richie's Double Bill Switch
• Trick Photography II
• My Cupped Hands Runneth Over
• Skinny Kreskin
• Richie's Little Stickman
• Cramped
• Trident Sugarless Bill
• Behind My Back
• Billboard
• Sour Dough
• Bonus: Sanders on the Belanger Cigarette Through Quarter

Notes of Interest

• Richie's Double Bill Switch is a seminal technique that originally appeared in David Acer's Natural Selections, and has since been reprinted in John Lovick's Switch
• Trick Photography II is a completely rethought and rebuilt version of Richard's Trick Photography, which appeared in The Magical Arts Journal, Vol. 1, no. 10, may 1987.
• Sour Dough is a benchmark bill-in-lime routine featuring Lime Richie, a barehanded transformation of a green silk into a lime.
• Richard's work on the Bélanger Cigarette Through Quarter was later included in the 2006 DVD re-release of the latter.