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Someone offers a recommendation in this thread: https://www.theory11.com/forums/threads/tarantula-2-can-be-performed-in-daylight.50003/

Thanks, I will. I'll cut him some slack for Mnemonica, such a good system. I haven't finished 5 points yet, but so far so good there too. And I'm sure I can learn from his analytic approach even if I don't agree with his argument, but I don't feel bad that something got spilled on the book...

Thanks everyone. I was fired up when I read that in the book and it was nice to have somewhere to come. I'm almost done with Ortiz's "Designing Miracles". I've enjoyed it very much. "Strong Magic" is next.

I just got "The Magic Way" by Juan Tamariz. on page 37 he actually suggests that you "hold your left hand somewhat cramped" with "the arm striking an odd pose" to mislead the spectator. I do not agree with this. I believe that this breaks any implied (or agreed upon as per Harris) suspension...

A Servante. Secret Servante by Sean Goodman is good. Best used with a coat. This is likely discussed in a book somewhere, but I don't have many coin books.

Expert Card Technique covers that in great detail.

It's hard to know without specifics, but you can often anchor a rogue finger by pressing it against another finger or your other hand etc.

Buy Card College, then the others. Card College is much more organized and focused, it will save you a lot of time. You will have a good library of indexed sleights and you will avoid learning unnecessary or out of date techniques. Then get the others, they are all great and have things which...

Many magic shops offer the types of lessons you are talking about. You can get lessons over Skype too if you can't find anything locally. Yes it exists, not it is not as common as other types of lessons. It's likely rather easy to find lessons in the cities that are considered magic...

And Joe Navaarro's work. One is on poker, I think he did another one that was not poker centric. His background is similar to yours so there may not be too much new there for you. You'll have to decide for yourself.