Volume 1
For over 30 years Mark Leveridge has gradually been creating a portfolio of card effects and routines where the accent is on practicality and entertainment value. In the first of four projected volumes The Collected Card Magic of Mark Leveridge – Volume 1 offers the reader 15 commercial effects, all of which should be within the capabilities of everyone except the total beginner.

Instead of padding out this ebook with minor technical variations, or with descriptions of esoteric card sleights and moves, Mark has chosen to provide a range of varied, interesting and above all individual tricks which will delight anyone who is looking for card tricks to actually perform for real.

While most of the material is designed for close up, there are also included some routines for the stand up performer. The contents are:

• I’m Surprised You Didn’t Notice
• Name Dropper
• Switchback
• Give Me A Number
• Instant Card Reversal
• The Unprint Button
• Cards On Parade
• My Card Transpo
• New Aces Through Newspaper
• The Thought Indicator Cards
• Spin Out
• Pacey Aces
• Three Card Tricky
• Ultimate Jumbo Stretch
• Brainstormer

This Collection provides a wonderful way to get your hands on Mark’s card effects from the past right up to the present, and the complete set will assemble all of his best card material in one place. Some of the effects included are still sold as stand alone products, which makes the ebook extremely good value.
1st edition 2010, 54 pages.
word count: 20181 which is equivalent to 80 standard pages of text
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Volume 2
The Collected Card Magic of Mark Leveridge – Volume 2 features material for close up, stand up and even children’s shows. Here is a run down of the contents:

1-2-3 Jumbo Cards Across – great version of the classic trick for stand up adult shows or children’s work. Easy to do.

The Blankety-Blank Pack – a striking blank deck routine that finishes with the entire deck printing backs and faces.

Diary Of A Nobody – a neat variation on the Danson Diary trick which only uses one diary and one deck plus has a twist at the end.

Corrector – a nice use of an old idea using a window envelope and a card which has several applications.

Seeing Is Believing – four blank faced cards instantly become printed with faces. Only four cards used, a great way to start a show.

The Free Selection Collectors – the full handling for Master Routine No.2 which is a multi-phase routine using a regular deck.

It Pays To Be A Lady – classic Mark Leveridge routine using three Jumbo cards and money that keeps appearing under the cards!

007 – a signed coin vanishes and penetrates through a deck in its box to land on top of a signed card in the pack’s centre.

The Modest Card – interesting variation on Card Warp in which cards turn face up and face down inside a flat paper tunnel.

Transparent Switch – clever idea which enables you to switch cards inside a completely transparent plastic wallet.

All the effects are practical and rely on subtlety rather than difficult card moves. Variety and ingenuity are very much in evidence. If you love workable card magic, you’re sure to enjoy this collection.

1st edition 2011, 78 pages.
word count: 23872 which is equivalent to 95 standard pages of text
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Volume 3
The third volume of this quality card magic set features a further 12 of Mark’s highly workable card routines. There is a lot of variety offered here, and the standard of the magic is high.

There is magic for close up shows, for mentalism, for parlour shows and also for commercial walkabout work. Here is a run down of the contents:

Aces Under Control – this is a perfect way to produce the four Aces in that it looks skillful yet is easy to do

Co-inci-mental – a you-do-as-I-do card matching effect that cuts out all the unnecessary packet exchanges plus adds a kicker finish

Countdown Prediction – a virtually self working prediction effect in which a spectator unerringly selects a card to match your prediction despite a hugely random looking selection process

Excalibur – still part of my current catalogue, this card stab can be done with almost any knife. The presentation is fun and the method is ingeniously simple

Spot The Difference – Master Routine No.7 is included in full here with all the great line illustrations by magical artist Jay Fortune. This is a stand up Find The Lady style routine that has built in logic and entertainment

The Department Store – this is a versatile ‘story’ trick which can be adapted to a number of different themes. It’s a great dressing up of a sandwich type effect

Pre-View – baffling effect in which a freely selected card instantly vanishes from a deck only to be discovered as being the card ALREADY placed unseen into an envelope before the selection was made! Uses one of my Utility Switch Envelopes, full construction details for which are included

Signature Piece – if you want to perform a routine in which a card bearing your contact details is involved and which can be given away to the spectator at the finish, this easy to do trick is the one to try

Hide And Seek – a selected card gets ‘stage fright’ and keeps vanishing from the top of the deck and hiding itself in the deck’s centre, before at the finish changing its back colour altogether! Regular cards only required, no re-set, a commercial up-in-the-hands routine for walkabout performance

No Palm Card To Pocket – if ever a trick title defined what happens in the trick itself, this is it! Easy to do, neat routining

The Right Wrong Prediction -a spectator genuinely freely selects a card from a Jumbo deck as a prediction. A second spectator then selects a regular sized card but unfortunately it does not match the prediction Jumbo. However, instantly the prediction card changes instead to match the selection

Unavoidable Destiny – Reloaded – a Brainwave Deck type effect but using just one regular deck. Any card is named and is found to be the only card with an odd coloured back in the pack

This really is an extremely strong line up of card magic, with ideas to suit most performing circumstances. As with the other ebooks in this series, here you will find only workable routines, not endless sleights and minor finesses. It’s a book of practical ideas for those who simply like to perform good card magic.

1st edition 2013, 71 pages.
word count: 21559 which is equivalent to 86 standard pages of text
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Volume 4
The final volume of Mark’s Collected Card Magic series builds on the previous three volumes and finishes strongly with 10 excellent varied effects for close up, stand up and mentalism.

Impossible – a really baffling routine in which two selected cards lost in the centre of two separate decks, magically swap places while the packs are still in their boxes. No re-set, this can be done in walkabout or in a close up/parlour show.

The Invisible Deck Routine – Mark’s classic take on the well known plot, but in which no real deck is ever used. A spectator selects any card from an ‘invisible’ pack, and drops it into an examined, empty envelope which they initial. Moments later, a real card matching the selection is slid from the very same envelope. Designed for use in a stand up show.

The Caught Card – three cards, a court card and two indifferent ones, all with a hole punched in one end, are examined and threaded onto a piece of ribbon with the court card trapped between the two others. The cards are spread to show they are genuinely threaded on. Despite this, with a pull the court card visibly penetrates off the ribbon and everything can be examined again.

Virus Card – lovely multi-phase routine which is perfect for a one off close up show performance. A blank faced ‘virus’ card behaves strangely when mixed with the other regular cards, until eventually it turns every single card blank, and all the card faces are shown to have collected together on the virus card.

The Cut And Restored Card – any card is freely chosen and sealed inside a small pay envelope which can openly be shown on all sides. Taking a pair of scissors, the performer cuts across the width of the envelope, yet when the end of the envelope is cut away, the card is slid unharmed from inside, leaving the envelope itself still in two severed pieces. A simple yet very puzzling effect with a highly practical, clever method.

Card In Mind – here’s a baffling mental themed effect for a close up/parlour show setting. A spectator shuffles a deck which is boxed and left in view. A second spectator writes the names of any playing card (genuine free choice) on a small square of paper which is folded and his initials placed on it before being left in view. The performer attempts to read the spectator’s mind and writes a card name on a second piece of paper, and also a number from 1-52. When the spectator’s card choice is revealed, the magician’s prediction is shown to be correct, and the number the magician also wrote is counted down to in the shuffled deck, and it proves to land on the very card merely thought of by the spectator.

Colour Confusion – this is a practical up-in-the-hands colour changing deck routine for walkabout performers. A blue deck is shown and one blue backed card is freely touched by a spectator. The value is shown and the card shuffled back into the deck. With a snap of the fingers, the deck is spread face down once more to reveal that instantly every single card back, except one, has changed from blue to red. And the only blue backed card left is found to be the selection.

Horoscope – in this easy to do strolling mental effect, you appear to be able to ascertain the star sign of a spectator. This routine was designed with a female audience in mind, and if performed correctly it gives the impression that you are able to work out a person’s Zodiac sign, just by looking at them.

Instant Card Flight – a signed card is slipped into a small pay envelope that has a square hole cut right through its centre. The balance of the deck is placed on the table and covered by a spectator’s hand. Holding up the envelope, with the card in view through the hole, the performer passes his hand in front of it, and instantly the card is seen to vanish. The envelope can be torn up, proving it is empty, and when the deck is spread the signed card is found reversed in its centre. This routine is designed for a one off close up performance.

Breakout – one of Mark’s all time favourite routines to perform when strolling, this easy to do effect is a riot of fun if presented properly. Since the presentation is so much part of this trick’s strength, the full patter exactly as I use it is provided. In essence, a spectator becomes a magician and a selected card, which is shuffled back into the deck, then boxed and wrapped in a handkerchief, is caused by the spectator to penetrate out of the sealed box and arrive loose on the outside of the case. Real worker magic.

1st edition 2018, 64 pages.
word count: 18238 which is equivalent to 72 standard pages of text