Still Unsolved: Great True Murder Cases

Reprint. x, 312pp. Lightly illustrated. Cloth-covered boards (square, clean, bright and tight). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, gutter between copyright page and contents page slightly over-opening). In its original dust jacket (very gently bumped on edges). A book about getting away with murder; in all it covers some seventy-three murders committed by twenty-one people, none of whom were ever firmly identified; with writing by firm favourites of the genre, including Ngiao Marsh, Nancy Mitford, Colin Wilson, Erle Stanley Gardner. The case of the German Baker (or how to dispose of a human body) may have given Conan Doyle the basis for Holmes' first exploit in A Study in Scarlett, as the parallels are remarkable - and detailed in this volume by Michael Harrison.