The World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes

First edition
Author	Roger Boar and Nigel Blundell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Octopus World's Greatest
Genre	True crime
Publisher	Octopus Books, Hamlyn
Publication date	1984
Media type	Paperback
Pages	192 pp
ISBN	0-600-57231-5
Dewey Decimal	364.1

The World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes is a book written by Roger Boar and Nigel Blundell which was first published in 1983 by Octopus Books as part of their World's Greatest series.^[1] It contains accounts of various unsolved mysteries such as murders, unexplained disappearances and scandals.

Greatest Unsolved Crimes

• Advertisement of Death – the murder of Josephine Backshall
• The Green Bicycle Murder – 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 21th 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 1946
• A Fatal Flight - the disappearance of two SAETA Airliners over the Andes

Part 3: Crimes of Greed

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

Part 4: Vanishing Tricks

• The Disappearing Parachutist - the aircraft hijacking committed by D. B. Cooper
• The Canine Sherlock Holmes - the discovery of the missing FIFA World Cup Trophy by Pickles the dog
• The Missing Murderers - the fate of Nazi 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 murder 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 Murder 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 murder 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: Murder Most Foul

• House of Horror - the murder by Timothy Evans of his infant daughter
• Poetry, Passion and Prison - the Pimlico Mystery
• The Vicar and the Choirmistress - the murder of Eleanor Mills along with her vicar lover and the severing of their vocal folds
• Death in Happy Valley - the murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll
• Lizzie and the Axe - the trial of Lizzie Borden
• The Harry Oakes Affair - the murder of Harry Oakes
• Killings in the Congo - the murder of Patrice Lumumba and the death of Dag Hammarskjöld
• Streets of Fear - serial killer, Jack the Ripper
• Jack the Ripper - serial killer, Jack the Stripper
• Death in the Churchyard - the murder 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 murder investigation
• The Motorway Monster - the murder of Barbara Mayo, a hitchhiker
• Death of the Black Dahlia - the murder of Elizabeth Short
• The Torso in the Trunk - a gruesome discovery in a trunk at Brighton railway station
• Katyn - 1941 - the unattributed Katyn massacre

References

External links

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