Volume 036Crime & Mystery
The Spy in the Bag
The coroner thought an intelligence officer found dead in a padlocked holdall had probably been killed, but the police concluded he died alone.
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Crime & Mystery
Unsolved crimes, disappearances and the evidence that refuses to settle.
Volume 033Crime & Mystery
An Appointment with Nobody
Julia Wallace was killed in her Liverpool parlour while her husband searched for a man who did not exist, and his alibi became the case against him.
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Volume 028Crime & Mystery
Black Magic in Whitechapel
An occult writer claimed to have decoded the Whitechapel murders as black magic, and later writers named him as the Ripper himself.
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Volume 018Crime & Mystery
Mountain of the Dead
Why did nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their tent on a Ural mountainside and walk into the freezing dark?
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Volume 013Crime & Mystery
Scandal at Dublin Castle
The theft of Ireland’s crown jewels on the eve of a royal visit ended one official’s career, but neither the jewels nor the thief was ever found.
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Volume 001Crime & Mystery
Chalk Marks for a Nameless Woman
A skeleton taken from a hollow Worcestershire tree in 1943 has outlasted theories of spies, witches and drunken pranks, and the woman still has no name.
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