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In the concluding chapter of How Houdini Made Magic, Derren Brown explores how even in death, Houdini knew how to ensure his legend would endure. The legendary death-defier would eventually fall, not to a locked water cell or an icy river, but to a ruptured appendix after a fateful backstage punch in Montreal. Worn out by relentless spiritualist crusades, heavy lawsuits, and mounting mortality, a 52-year-old Houdini performed his final show in Detroit with a blazing 40-degree fever before…