1. List of entries
    Part 1: Crimes Without Call  Part 2: Crimes of Our Time  Part 3: Crimes of Avarice  Part 4: Vanishing Tricks  Part 5: Murder Most Foul 

2. References

3. External links

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.^[1] 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 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 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 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 Stripper - 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 - 1940 - the unattributed Katyn massacre

References

External links

• [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2629450M/World's_greatest_unsolved_crimes Information Page]

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