The World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes

The World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes is a book written by Roger Boar and Nigel Blundell which was first published in 1984 by Octopus Books Limited as part of their World's Greatest series. It contains accounts of various unsolved mysteries such as murders, unexplained disappearances and scandals.

List of Entries

Part 1: Crimes Without Call

• Who Was R.M. Qualtrough? - the case of William Herbert Wallace
• Advertisement of Death - the [...] of Josephine Backshall
• The Green Bicycle [...] - better known as the Green Bicycle Case
• The Enigma of Nuremberg - the story of Kaspar Hauser
• Sherlock Holmes' Real Case - the trial of Oscar Slater and Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement
• Dead Men Cannot Talk - the sinking of the MS Georges Philippar
• Disappearing Dorothy - the disappearance of Dorothy Forstein
• Mystery at Wolf's Neck - the death of Evelyn Foster
• Spring-Heeled Jack, The Demon of London - the sightings of Spring-Heeled Jack
• The World's Last Airship - the Hindenburg Disaster

Part 2: Crimes of Our Time

• The Computer as Crook - the computer fraud of Jerry Schneider
• A Sadistic Revenge - the disappearance of Dora Bloch in Idi Amin's Uganda
• Piracy 20th Century Style - an account of modern-day piracy in the Caribbean
• Double Dealing at the Dogs - a greyhound racing scam at White City, London in 1945
• A Fatal Flight - the disappearance of two SAETA Airliners over the Andes

Part 3: Crimes of Avarice

• Conviction Without a Corpse - the disappearance of Murial McKay
• Doctor Death - the trial of John Bodkin Adams
• The [...]'s Gold - the widespread theft carried out by the [...] Party during World War II
• The Unpaid Debt - the [...] of Arnold Rothstein
• The Black WIDOW - the serial [...], Belle Gunness
• The Wreck of the Chantiloupe - the sinking of the Chantiloupe and the [...] of Mrs. James Burke

Part 4: Vanishing Tricks

• The Disappearing Parachutist - the aircraft hijacking committed by DB Cooper
• The Canine Sherlock Holmes - the discovery of the missing FIFA World Cup Trophy by Pickles the dog
• The Missing Murderers - the fate of [...] war criminals who fled after World War II
• France's Uncrowned King - Louis XVII of France and the many imposters claiming to be him
• The Sinking of the Salem - the staged sinking of the Salem oil tanker for the sake of an insurance fraud
• A Peer's Great Gamble - The Famous disappearance of Richard Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
• Suspect Deceased - the disappearance of Linda Sturley
• The Disappearance of Goodtime Joe - Joseph Force Crater
• Death at the Opera House - the disappearance of Ambrose Small
• The Impossible is Possible - the [...] of Roy Orsini
• A Riddle in Life and a Riddle in Death - the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa and the surrounding conspiracy theory
• The Mysterious Mummy - an ornamental mummy which was discovered to contain a real corpse during the filming of a Six Million Dollar Man episode
• The Prairie's [...] Inn - the Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers
• Who Did She Bury? - the disappearance of Nels Stenstrom and the strange funeral ceremony conducted in his absence
• Acrobats of Death - the [...] of Ugo Pavesi by a man described by witnesses as a giant
• The Oldest Kidnap Victim? - The discovery of Homo erectus pekinensis and the complete disappearance of the fossils in transit

Part 5: [...] Most Foul

• House of Horror - the [...] by Timothy Evans of his infant daughter
• Poetry, Passion and Prison - the Pimlico Mystery
• The Vicar and the Choirmistress - the [...] of Eleanor Mills along with her vicar lover and the severing of their vocal folds
• Death in Happy Valley - the [...] of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll
• Lizzie and the Axe - the trial of Lizzie Borden
• The Harry Oakes Affair - the [...] of Harry Oakes
• Killings in the Congo - the [...] of Patrice Lumumba and the death of Dag Hammarskjöld
• Streets of Fear - serial killer, Jack the Ripper
• Jack the Stripper - serial killer, Jack the Stripper
• Death in the Churchyard - the [...] of Olive Bennett
• The Arm in the Shark Case - the discovery of a severed human arm in the body of a Tiger Shark and subsequent [...] investigation
• The Motorway Monster - the [...] of Barbara Mayo, a hitchhiker
• Death of the Black Dahlia - the [...] of Elizabeth Short
• The Torso in the Trunk - a gruesome discovery in a trunk at Brighton railway station
• Katyn - 1940 - the unattributed Katyn massacre

External links

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