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Amelia Nierenberg is a London-based reporter for the NY Times. I was fascinated by her recent story of a woman who made her way into a prestigious organization of magicians by pretending to be a man, then was found out, kicked out...and disappeared.
Magicians Mount Search for Woman Behind Decades-Old Deception - The New York Times (may require subscription)
Another version of the story: The woman who tricked her way into the Magic Circle – then vanished into thin air