The giant book of unsolved crimes
By: edited by Roger Wilkes
Publisher: Magpie Books, an imprint of Constable & Robinson, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781845292065
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Crime; Case studies; Murder; Homicide
Other titles: The Mammoth book of unsolved crimes.
Description: This book is a collection of more than thirty of the most famous and puzzling murder and mystery cases of all time.
Notes: First published in the UK as 'The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crimes' by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd., 1999.
Table of contents: title: Evidence by entrapment / Brian Masters --; title: The short sweet martyrdom of Jake Lingle / Kenneth Alsop --; title: Mistress and maid / George A. Birmingham --; title: The real Marie Roget / Irving Wallace --; title: Checkmate / F. Tennyson Jesse --; title: A case that rocked the world / Louis Stark --; title: The A6 murder / Paul Foot --; title: Florence Maybrick / Edgar Lustgarten --; title: The mystery of the poisoned partridges / C.J.S. Thompson --; title: The obsession with the Black Dahlia / Russell Miller --; title: True lies / Judith Cook --; title: Who killed Joe Elwell? / Morris Markey --; title: Dr. John Bodkin Adams / Eric Ambler --; title: A sort of genius / James Thurber --; title: What became of Martin Guerre? / Elliott O'Donnell --; title: The case of the salmon sandwiches / Daniel Forson --; title: Death of a millionaire / Julian Symons --; title: The mystery of the hansom cab / Alexander Woolcott --; title: A coincidence of corpses / Jonathan Goodman --; title: The secret of Ireland's eye / William Roughead --; title: The mystery of Merstham Tunnel / Sir Edward Parry --; title: The dumb blonde who knew too much / Kirk Wilson --; title: Temptation and the elder / Jack Smith-Hughes --; title: The hoop-la murder trial / Sydney Horler --; title: Jack the ripper / Philip Sugden --; title: The murder of Margery Wren / Douglas G. Brown ; E.V. Tullett --; title: The zodiac killer / Colin Wilson --; title: And to hell with burgundy / Dorothy Dunbar --; title: Fools and horses / John Edwards --; title: California's worst crime / Guy B.H. Logan --; title: The Camden Town murder / Nina Warner Hooke and Gil Thomas --; title: Arnold Rothstein's final payoff / Damon Runyon --; title: The death of Bella Wright / Edmund Pearson --; title: Murder hath charms / Christianna Brand --; title: The man who contracted out of humanity / Rebecca West --; title: A Kent murder mystery / T.C.H. Jacobs.