Sh-h-h--! it's a secret by Ted Annemann

Annemann describes a wealth of forty pieces in this wonderful booklet. The first, "Call me up sometime" is a beautifully direct telephone miracle. This is a prime example of Annemann's mantra of 'effect before method'.

I found the following line from Annemann's introduction funny:

1st edition 1934; 50 pages.

5. Call Me Up Sometime
6. The Borrowed Deck Tragedy
7. Help Wanted In The Dark
9. A Thought Is Fathomed
10. Your Nose Knows
11. A Rule Of The Thumb
11. A Handkerchief Is Selected
12. A Card Is Found Once More
13. Odd or Even, Which?
14. The Alternate Detection
15. A New Kink
16. Annemann's Eight-in-a-Row Location
17. Red or Black
18. The Challenge Of The Year
19. The Mind In Retrospect
20. The Five Thought Effect
21. The Guessing Contest
23. The Two Person Location
23. A Couple of Cards Get Together
24. The New Deal Card Code
25. The Perfect Club Slate Routine
27. Fair and Square
28. Dual Sympathy
29. Another Sympathetic Mystery
30. Triplets By Chance
31. The Last of The Think Stop Tricks
33. Your Card!
34. The Tune Detective
35. The Mindreader's Dream
37. Music In The Air
39. A Quaint Happening
40. The Prophecy of Occurrence
41. The 203rd Force
42. Nickles On The Brain
42. Despair Of The Devil
43. The Lady And The Gentleman
44. The Bell Mystery
45. Three Cards - The Three Numbers
46. The $1000 Test Card Location
47. Dead Men Tell No Tales!

Theodore 'Theo' Annemann (stage name Ted Anneman) born Theodore John Squires (February 22, 1907 – January 12, 1942) was an American professional magician who specialized in the field of mentalism. Annemann is most famous for inventing and refining many of the standard mentalism routines that continue to be used by magicians today.

I don’t suppose I could write anything without appending an introduction, and I always pound it out with great glee when I have finished whatever I am putting together.
As far as I am concerned my introductions serve as apologies for everything regarding my writings except the actual tricks themselves. I like to think of myself as the moodiest writer in Magic, because whether it be lack of ability or not, I can’t put words on paper like a normal person.
Starting with a complete list of contents I always start by writing the easiest or shortest first and then skip to the very end and write about half of that before glancing off on to something else that happens to strike my fancy. Of course, I finally pick up loose ends and am able to call it a day, but my completed efforts seldom have rhyme, rhythm or reason.
As usual, I haven’t written for the amateur or beginner so much as the semi-professional and professional who actually “do things” for audiences instead of playing it solely as a hobby. This introduction wouldn’t be complete if 1 didn’t say something about the effect being the thing so just consider it said.
I want to thank John Mulholland for the trouble he has taken at times to show me previous mistakes and errors in putting my thoughts in concrete form. I couldn’t have had better advice, and I couldn’t have done worse if he had never spoken to me, because no matter how much I appreciate what 1 have been told, it seems as though 1 can’t change my habits nor my errors. I have gone merrily on writing sometimes in the third person and following it immediately with something in the first, but withal I feel pretty sure that I have made myself clear as to the important points of the problem in hand.
Special attention is hereby called to “ Call Me Up Sometime.” Back in the third volume of The Sphinx can be found the first writing of the telephone trick. I don’t mean a method either; I mean the effect. John Northern Hilliard who created the effect of using a telephone to have a card named told me three days ago that my revised idea on this test is the first he has ever heard that really revamps the effect and yet keeps the salient features. It will now fool those who know the original. It was a nice compliment.
I think I have covered about everything necessary to my peace of mind. I like to do these things so well that someday I’m going to write a twenty page introduction and follow it with one trick! Trouble is, however, that after that harangue the trick will HAVE to be good.
THEO. ANNEMANN.