Billet reading has been a popular trick for mentalists and mediums and spiritualists. This is a list of magicians/illusionists, prestidigitators, mentalists, escapologists, and other practitioners of stage magic. Richard has written 37 books for magicians and mentalists, many cited as modern-day classics. Other famous mentalists are Uri Geller and Derren Brown. Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. The book test is a classic magic trick used by mentalists to demonstrate telepathy-like effects. Warm reading is a performance tool used by professional mentalists and psychic scam artists. Unlike other mentalists of his era such as The Piddingtons, he claimed genuine psychic abilities. Eventually, she emerged as one of the most applauded mentalists in the United States. Zancig and his wife had been the most famous stage mentalists of their age. The Mentalists is a play by English playwright Richard Bean. Mentalists generally do not mix "standard" magic tricks with their mental feats.