Books by Daniel P. Mannix

Daniel P. Mannix (1911-1997) was born in Pennsylvania and after graduating from college he joined a circus working as a sword-swallower, mind-reader, escapologist and lock-picker. A renowned journalist: he wrote some twenty books including Memories of a sword-Swallower and co-wrote with Malcolm Cowley-Black Cargoes, about the African slave trade (Penguin 2002)