Among the Missing: An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons by Jay robert nash

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By Jay robert nash

The never-ending secret of Amelia Earhart's final flight. The mysterious disappearance of pass judgement on Joseph strength Crater. The vanishing acts of Agatha Christie, Sherwood Anderson and Aimee Semple McPherson. The misplaced adventurers - Colonel Percy Fawcett, Richard Halliburton, and George Leigh-Mallory. those recognized faces and hundreds of thousands extra make up this interesting and fact-filled publication. besides the situations that made nationwide and around the world headlines, there are the unique tales of notorious or formerly imprecise lacking individuals which learn like eye-catching secret, experience, and infrequently technological know-how fiction stories. there's the case of latest York heiress Dorothy Arnold, who vanished ceaselessly whereas crossing 5th road in the course of an afternoon of buying. And David Lang, who in keeping with five eyewitnesses, evaporated into skinny air on a Tennessee state street in 1880. Then there has been Arthur Orton, who insisted until eventually his final breath that he was once Roger Charles Tichborne, the scion of 1 of England's oldest households, whose tremendous holdings introduced him 1000000 money a yr till he mysteriously disappeared with the send Bella in 1854. The tales of these who lower back from the realm of the lacking are usually the main extraordinary. The e-book includes the entire parts of excessive human drama: love, vengeance, avarice, event, secret, violence, intercourse, and homicide.

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