Among the Missing

An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present

Jay Robert Nash

The endless mystery of Amelia Earhart's last flight. The mysterious disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater. The vanishing acts of Agatha Christie, Sherwood Anderson and Aimee Semple McPherson. The lost adventurers - Colonel Percy Fawcett, Richard Halliburton, and George Leigh-Mallory. These famous faces and hundreds more make up this fascinating and fact-filled book. Along with the cases that made national and worldwide headlines, there are the exotic stories of infamous or until now obscure missing persons which read like captivating mystery, adventure, and sometimes science fiction tales. There is the case of New York heiress Dorothy Arnold, who vanished forever while crossing Fifth Avenue during a day of shopping. And David Lang, who according to 5 eyewitnesses, evaporated into thin air on a Tennessee country road in 1880. Then there was Arthur Orton, who insisted until his last breath that he was Roger Charles Tichborne, the scion of one of England's oldest families, whose vast holdings brought him a million dollars a year until he mysteriously disappeared with the ship Bella in 1854. The stories of those who returned from the world of the missing are often the most bizarre. The book contains all the elements of high human drama: love, vengeance, avarice, adventure, mystery, violence, sex, and murder.

M. Evans & Company

Pages: 446 • Trim: 7½ x 9

978-1-59077-523-3 • eBook • February 1978 • $19.99 • (£14.95)

Subjects: Reference / Curiosities & Wonders, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Social Science / Popular Culture, True Crime / Murder / General

Among the Missing

An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present

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The endless mystery of Amelia Earhart's last flight. The mysterious disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater. The vanishing acts of Agatha Christie, Sherwood Anderson and Aimee Semple McPherson. The lost adventurers - Colonel Percy Fawcett, Richard Halliburton, and George Leigh-Mallory. These famous faces and hundreds more make up this fascinating and fact-filled book. Along with the cases that made national and worldwide headlines, there are the exotic stories of infamous or until now obscure missing persons which read like captivating mystery, adventure, and sometimes science fiction tales. There is the case of New York heiress Dorothy Arnold, who vanished forever while crossing Fifth Avenue during a day of shopping. And David Lang, who according to 5 eyewitnesses, evaporated into thin air on a Tennessee country road in 1880. Then there was Arthur Orton, who insisted until his last breath that he was Roger Charles Tichborne, the scion of one of England's oldest families, whose vast holdings brought him a million dollars a year until he mysteriously disappeared with the ship Bella in 1854. The stories of those who returned from the world of the missing are often the most bizarre. The book contains all the elements of high human drama: love, vengeance, avarice, adventure, mystery, violence, sex, and murder.

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M. Evans & Company

Pages: 446 • Trim: 7½ x 9

978-1-59077-523-3 • eBook • February 1978 • $19.99 • (£14.95)

Subjects: Reference / Curiosities & Wonders, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Social Science / Popular Culture, True Crime / Murder / General

Author

Jay Robert Nash is the bestselling author of Bloodletters and Badmen, Hustlers and Con Men, and the Almanac of True Crime. He received a special Edgar Allen Poe award in 1991 for his Encyclopedia of World Crime. He lives in Wilmette, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Escape to Love
2. Dark Laughter
3. Strange SIrens Calling
4. Carried Away
5. Exit Into Evil
6. Murder Unseen
7. The Search for Wealth
8. They Knew Too Much
9. No Reason at All
10. Stepping Right Up
11. The Message from On-High
12. A Family Matter
13. Eerie Specters
14. Rackets and Ruses
15. The Searchers
A Chronology of Missing Persons
Bibliography
Index

Among the Missing

An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present

Jay Robert Nash

Among the Missing

An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present

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