Greatest Mysteries Of The Modern World: John Pinkney

Strange Vanishings: A long roll-call of ships found adrift from 1840 to 2003, their captains, crews and passengers lost without trace - and with no signs of struggle...and a doomed plane's final mystifying message. Mystifying Murders: The Melbourne strangler who stole his victim's names...the blood-soaked peer....a killer identified by ESP...Sydney's shark arm mystery... Uncanny Occurences: Portraits of a long-dead couple grow in mould on an Oxford wall...an eerie glow from nowhere lights an Australian cemetery for 60 years. Hidden History: was Stalin poisoned to prevent nuclear war? Did Hitler kill his lover? Scientific Enigmas: What created the gigantic shadow on Mars? How did ancient mapmakers accurately depict a solar system invisible from Earth? And much, much more. Illustrated with black and white photographs.