Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection

Contains

Canonical title

Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection

Original publication date

1965

First words

Until the gray and melancholy twenty-third of November, the people of Boston, like most Americans, had been talking all through 1849 of nothing but the great California gold rush.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He [Ponzi] left $75, barely enough to pay for his funeral.

Original language

English

Disambiguation notice

Contains:

• Murder at Harvard by Stewart H. Holbrook
• Four Months in a Haunted House by Harlan Jacobs
• The Shadow of a Doubt by Fulton Oursler
• How We Trapped Capone by F... (show all)rank J. Wilson, as told to Howard Whitman
• Counsel Assigned by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
• The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by James F. Johnson, as told to Floyd Miller
• The Case of Lord Dufferin by Louis K. Anspacher
• Detective's Holiday by Octavus Roy Cohen
• A Stranger in the Car by Gerald L. Moore
• The Great Portuguese Bank-Note Swindle by Frederic Sondern
• Love and the Lie Detector by David Redstone
• "They Swore My Life Away" by Clifford Shephard, as told to W.W. Ward
• A Housewife Who Confounded Two Countries by Murray Teigh Bloom
• The State of Tennessee Versus Uncle Joe by T.H. Alexander
• Secrets of a Soviet Assassin by Isaac Don Levine
• The Count of Gramercy Park by Robert Hayden Alcorn
• Almost the Perfect Detective by Anthony Abbot
• The Global War on Narcotics by Frederic Sondern
• Bond of Reunion by Carl Carmer
• The Trial That Rocked the Nation by John T. Scopes
• The Amazing Mr. Means by J. Edgar Hoover, with Courtney Ryley Cooper
• A Killer is Loose by Joseph P. Blank
• One Alaska Night by Barrett Willoughby
• Life and Death of a Twisted Genius by Leslie Velie
• The Capture of Adolf Eichmann by Bela W. von Block
• The Abraham Lincoln Murder Mystery by Theodore Roscoe
• Slaughter by Airplane by Terrence F. Flahiff
• The Archer-Shee Case by Alexander Woollcott
• Mr. Hard-to-Catch by Irwin Ross
• Why the Choir was Late by George H. Edeal
• The Letter the Birds Wrote by John William Rogers
• Tillie Scrubbed On by William F. McDermott and Karl Detzer
• The Curse of Amen-ra by Edgar Wallace
• The Killer, the Mother and the Boy by Ernest Havemann
• Ghost Dog of Sunnybank by Albert Payson Terhune
• The Great Armored-Car Robbery by Frederic Sondern
• Celebrated Scamp by Alva Johnston
• Portrait of Harry by Arthur Trevenning Harris
• Fortune in the Grave by J. Edgar Hoover
• Ship of Sleepless Men by Anthony Abbot
• Miracle on the Gallows by Jerome Beatty
• The Unmasking of Paul "The Waiter" Ricca by Louis Sidran
• No Clues by Karl Detzer
• Baker Street Episode by Ellery Husted
• A Girl Named Lavender by Carl Carmer
• The Reader's Digest Murder Case by Fulton Oursler
• "A Mistake Doesn't Have to Be Final" by Joseph Phillips
• Britain's Most Baffling Crime by Anthony Abbot
• The Blaster by J. Edgar Hoover
• Things I Can't Explain by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• Death in the Arctic by Arthur Train
• Impersonator Extraordinary by Irwin Ross
• Bluebeard of Paris by Webb Miller
• Our Travels with Ho-tei by C.J. Lambert
• Who Killed Les Wilson? by Joseph P. Blank
• Seeds of Treason by Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky
• Evidence of the Unseen by Archibald Rutledge
• The Manufactured Clue by Alan Hynd
• The Millvale Apparition by Louis Adamic
• Ponzi's Monumental Swindle by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas