• Foreword – Bill Larsen
• Introduction – Bruce Cervon
• Author’s Introduction – Stephen Minch
• Vernonana Historical Photography Portfolio or Rare Vernon Memorabilia – Robin Young

Chapter One: Lost and Found Department (card effects that revolve around finding a selected card)

• The Challenge Locations
• The Bridge
• The Dual Crimp
• The Scrape
• The Wallet Punch
• Dual to the Death
• By Any Other Name
• The Slap Trick

Chapter Two: The Garden of Forking Paths ( card tricks in which the final effect varies depending on choices made by the spectator)

• Aces to Order
• Out of Sight and Mind II
• Four Options
• Two-Six-Four Royale

Chapter Three: From Silks to Nuts (effects that do not involve playing cards)

• The Tale of the Treasury-Worm
• The Daivergent Silk
• The Twirl Link
• The Threadborne Link
• The Peripatetic Walnuts

Chapter Four: Formal Exchanges (card transposition effects)

• The Trick that Cannot be Reconstructed
• The Loving Couple
• Al ‘n’ Dai at the Hop
• A Reblocking of “The Jumping Jack”
• Out of Uniform

Chapter Five: Card Ciphers (card tricks that make use of counting or numbers)

• The Rendezvous Force
• Why am I Here?
• Frisbie Saunders’ Location by the Numbers
• Affinities
• Packet Calculator

Chapter Six: Singular Events (effects that can’t easily be placed in other categories)

• The Intelligent Leaper
• Driven to the Depths
• The Corsican Climbers
• Punched in the Face
• Out of Touch
• Sans Index
• Vernon on Edward G. Brown’s “Poker Hand Mystery”
• Aces by Proxy
• The Third Color
• Tour Through the Outback
• The Top-Stock Riffle Reverse
• Larry Jennings’ Eidetic
• Commanding the Colors
• It Stands Alone
• The Silhouette Change
• A Face in the Night

Chapter Seven: Sorted Affairs (card tricks with pre-prepared decks)

• A Sticky Solution
• It’s a Snap
• Vernon on Gilbreath
• Nerves on Edge

Chapter Eight: New Wine from Old Bottles (previously unpublished effects by some of the magicians Vernon admired)

• Max Malini’s Hypnotic Gaze Divination
• Nate Leipzig’s Two-Deck Transposition
• Leipzig on the Collins Ace Trick
• Henry Christ’s Vanish for the Collins Ace Trick
• Henry Christ’s Spell Detector
• The Christ Ace Trick