• Foreword by herb Zarrow
• Introduction by Bruce Cervon
• Author's Introduction - Stephen Minch
• "Trouping Around in Magic with Max Holden"

Chapter One: Dark Side of the Hand

• Subway Gambler's Palm
• The Contortion Palm
• Dr. Daley's Face-Lift Addition
• The lilliput Palm
• An Historical Note on the Dr. Elliot Top Palm
• The Revolving Palm-Replacement
• The Finley Diagonal Palm Shift Revisited
• Flat Top

Chapter Two: Sundry Sleights

• Flat Top Switch
• The Spring-Loaded Tip-Over Change
• The Zarrow Block Addition
• A Note on Zarrow's Revolving Aces
• Back Breaker
• The Hair's-Breadth Stall
• Vernon on the "Endfield" Slip Cut
• On the Hay False Dovetail Shuffle
• A Table Pass

Chapter Three: Motley

• Spellatron
• Cut and Spell
• Caught in the Stretch
• If the Suit Fits
• Bruce Cervon's Trans Mitt
• Given the Slip
• Will-o'-the-Wisp
• The Vernon Deck Vanish and Recovery

Chapter Four: Cheats

• Joker Monte
• Three in the Hand, One in the Bush
• A Straight Deal
• The David and Goliath Deal
• Black's Stack
• Stacked to Formula

Chapter Five: Inflationary Effects

• On Your Metal
• All Sound and Fabric
• Right Where?
• Two Techniques with the Purse Palm
• Pastiche on Ramsay, with Variations
• On the Origins of the Steeplechase
• Folding Money
• Cashing a Check

Chapter Six: Notes on Cherished Ghosts

• "Vester" Adam's Flight of Fabric
• Arthur Finley's Remote Control
• Leo Horowitz's Look Homeward, Angel
• Henry Christ's Obstinate Pasteboards
• Faucett Ross' Twice Turned
• Mac MacDonald's Lost Chord
• Dr. Daley's Vis-a-vis
• Dr. Daley's Select Transposition
• Dr. Daley's Interlocking Setup
• Tenkai's Phoenix Bill Vanish
• Larry Grey's Cut to Perfection
• Jay Ose's Presentation for The Glass Through Table
• John Scarne's Doppelganger Location
• John Scarne's Western Union Trick

Chapter Seven: Solitary Amusements

• What's-the-Value Solitaire
• Think-of-a-Card Solitaire