Mysteries: Solved and Unsolved 1961 Harold T. Wilkins

Title: Mysteries: Solved and Unsolved

Author: Harold T. Wilkins

Description: Fourth printing, 1961. Boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Some foxing to dust jacket flaps and endpapers, else clean and unmarked, pages crisp. Dust jacket has a small closed tear to top edge of front panel and light wear to top of spine and corners; price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 319 pages.

''Harold T. Wilkins has gathered some astonishing evidence of such well-known happenings as the disappearance of Lord Kitchener's corpse, the hoax of the Piltdown Skull, the true tale of the Mary Celeste and of many other incidents, not so well-known but none the less fully authenticated and as intriguing as these. The result is a book which is full of gripping stories, challenging theories and many haunting questions, the answers to which may never be known...

The author of this book has spent some fifty years of his life traveling the world collecting material about mysterious, macabre and bizarre happenings of our own and earlier times. the result is this collection of weird tales.'' (from the front flap).

Contents:
[Legal Mysteries]
1. Solving the Great Tichborne Mystery.
2. What Happened to Elizabeth Canning?
[The Eerie, The Macabre and The Lost]
3. Ambrose Bierce ''Goes into the Darkness''.
4. Walled-up for Twenty-one Years in Modern Times.
5. The Monster of Bruges.
6. The Mystery of Lord Kitchener's Corpse.
7. Missing Persons Mysteries.
[War and Post-War Mysteries]
8. The Vanishing Aeroplanes.
9. How Did They Get There?
[Mysteries of Space-Time]
10. Tales of Creatures and People Out of This World.
11. The Shepton Mallet Mystery.
[The Queer and the Bizarre in the Twentieth Century]
12. What Killed Harry Dean?
13. The Strange Piltdown Man Puzzle.
[Riddles of the Sea]
14. The Fate of the Grosvenor.
15. New Light on the Mary Celeste.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: Odhams Press Limited
Place: Long Arcre, London
Year: 1961