History's Greatest Mysteries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History's Greatest Mysteries write by Bill Price. This book was released on 2017-01-29. History's Greatest Mysteries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History's Greatest Mysteries delves into the grey areas to examine the imponderable and sometimes unlikely stories of actual events and real people. From the gruesome murders committed by Jack the Ripper to the whereabouts of Lord Lucan, and from the loss of an entire continent to the case of a missing racehorse, we take a canter through history in an effort to shed a little light on to questions which, in all honesty, are never going to yield definitive answers. Some of the stories related in the following pages are deadly serious, some rather less so. There are cases of determined individuals who have struggled against the odds in an attempt to unravel the truth, while in others people have not let the facts get in the way and have made up any old nonsense by way of an explanation.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Name of the Rose write by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2014. The Name of the Rose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
Ambrose Bierce is Missing
Ambrose Bierce is Missing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ambrose Bierce is Missing write by Joe Nickell. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Ambrose Bierce is Missing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another -- or vice versa. In this wide- ranging study of historical investigation, former detective Joe Nickell allows the reader to look over his shoulder as he demonstrates the use of varied techniques in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. All the major categories of historical mystery are here -- ancient riddles, biographical enigmas, hidden identity, "fakelore," questioned artifacts, suspect documents, lost texts, obscured sources, and scientific challenges. Each is then illustrated by a complete case from the author's own files. Nickell's investigation of the giant Nazca drawings in Peru, for example -- thought by some to provide proof of ancient extraterrestrial visitations -- uses innovative techniques to reveal a very different origin. Other cases concern the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce, the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, the truth about the identity of John Demjanjuk ("Ivan the Terrible" to Polish death camp victims), the fate of a lost colonial American text, the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In reaching his solutions, Nickell demonstrates a wide variety of investigative techniques -- chemical and instrumental analyses, physical experimentation, a "psychological autopsy," forensic identification, archival research, linguistic analysis, folklore study, and many others. His highly readable book will intrigue the scholar and the history buff no less than the mystery lover.
An Ensuing Evil and Others
An Ensuing Evil and Others - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Ensuing Evil and Others write by Peter Tremayne. This book was released on 2007-04-01. An Ensuing Evil and Others available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Tremayne is one of the best loved writers of historical mysteries, his novels and stories published in over a dozen countries around the world. An Ensuing Evil collects for the first time fourteen of his historical mysteries ranging in time and place from 7th-century Ireland (featuring his best known sleuth, Fidelma of Cashel) and 8th-century Scotland (featuring the real-life Macbeth) to the recent history of Victorian England and beyond. These fourteen tales of murder, mayhem and mystery each display Tremayne's usual mix of compelling historical detail about the time period and a baffling puzzle that will delight and confound his ever-growning legion of fans.
Famous Historical Mysteries
Famous Historical Mysteries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Famous Historical Mysteries write by Leonard Reginald Gribble. This book was released on 1974. Famous Historical Mysteries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
