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Great true stories of crime, mystery & detection, [electronic resource] from the Readers digest.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pleasantville, Reader's Digest Association [1965]Description: 576 p. illus. 21 cmUniform titles:
  • Reader's digest.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1082
LOC classification:
  • HV6245 .R4
Online resources:
Contents:
Murder at Harvard / Stewart H. Holbrook -- Four months in a haunted house / Harlan Jacobs -- The shadow of a doubt / Fulton Oursler -- How we trapped Capone / Frank J. Wilson, as told to Howard Whitman -- Counsel assigned / Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews -- The man who sold the Eiffel Tower / James F. Johnson, as told to Floyd Miller -- The case of Lord Dufferin / Louis K. Anspacher -- Detective's holiday / Octavus Roy Cohen -- A stranger in the car / Gerald L. Moore -- The great Portuguese bank-note swindle / Frederic Sondern -- Love and the lie detector / David Redstone -- "They swore my life away" / Clifford Shephard, as told to W.W. Ward -- A housewife who confounded two countries / Murray Teigh Bloom -- The state of Tennessee versus Uncle Joe / T.H. Alexander -- Secrets of a Soviet assassin / Isaac Don Levine -- The Count of Gramercy park / Robert Hayden Alcorn -- Almost the perfect detective / Anthony Abbot -- The global war on narcotics / Frederic Sondern -- Bond of reunion / Carl Carmer -- The trial that rocked the nation / John T. Scopes -- The amazing Mr. Means / J. Edgar Hoover, with Courtney Ryley Cooper -- A killer is loose / Joseph P. Blank -- One Alaska night / Barrett Willoughby -- Life and death of a twisted genius / Leslie Velie -- The capture of Adolf Eichmann / Bela W. von Block -- The Abraham Lincoln murder mystery / Theodore Roscoe -- Slaughter by airplane / Terrence F. Flahiff -- The Archer-Shee case / Alexander Woollcott -- Mr. Hard-to-Catch / Irwin Ross -- Why the choir was late / George H. Edeal -- The letter the birds wrote / John William Rogers -- Tillie scrubbed on / William F. McDermott and Karl Detzer -- The curse of Amen-ra / Edgar Wallace -- The killer, the mother and the boy / Ernest Havemann -- Ghost dog of sunnybank / Albert Payson Terhune -- The great armored-car robbery / Frederic Sondern -- Celebrated scamp / Alva Johnston -- Portrait of Harry / Arthur Trevenning Harris -- Fortune in the grave / J. Edgar Hoover -- Ship of sleepless men / Anthony Abbot -- Miracle on the gallows / Jerome Beatty -- The unmasking of Paul "The waiter" Ricca / Louis Sidran -- No clues / Karl Detzer -- Baker Street episode / Ellery Husted -- A girl named Lavender / Carl Carmer -- The Reader's Digest murder case / Fulton Oursler -- "A mistake doesn't have to be final" / Joseph Phillips -- Britain's most baffling crime / Anthony Abbot -- The blaster / J. Edgar Hoover -- Things I can't explain / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Death in the Arctic / Arthur Train -- Impersonator extraordinary / Irwin Ross -- Bluebeard of paris / Webb Miller -- Our travels with Ho-tei / C.J. Lambert -- Who killed Les Wilson? / Joseph P. Blank -- Seeds of treason / Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky -- Evidence of the unseen / Archibald Rutledge -- The manufactured clue / Alan Hynd -- The Millvale apparition / Louis Adamic -- Ponzi's monumental swindle / Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas.
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Murder at Harvard / Stewart H. Holbrook -- Four months in a haunted house / Harlan Jacobs -- The shadow of a doubt / Fulton Oursler -- How we trapped Capone / Frank J. Wilson, as told to Howard Whitman -- Counsel assigned / Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews -- The man who sold the Eiffel Tower / James F. Johnson, as told to Floyd Miller -- The case of Lord Dufferin / Louis K. Anspacher -- Detective's holiday / Octavus Roy Cohen -- A stranger in the car / Gerald L. Moore -- The great Portuguese bank-note swindle / Frederic Sondern -- Love and the lie detector / David Redstone -- "They swore my life away" / Clifford Shephard, as told to W.W. Ward -- A housewife who confounded two countries / Murray Teigh Bloom -- The state of Tennessee versus Uncle Joe / T.H. Alexander -- Secrets of a Soviet assassin / Isaac Don Levine -- The Count of Gramercy park / Robert Hayden Alcorn -- Almost the perfect detective / Anthony Abbot -- The global war on narcotics / Frederic Sondern -- Bond of reunion / Carl Carmer -- The trial that rocked the nation / John T. Scopes -- The amazing Mr. Means / J. Edgar Hoover, with Courtney Ryley Cooper -- A killer is loose / Joseph P. Blank -- One Alaska night / Barrett Willoughby -- Life and death of a twisted genius / Leslie Velie -- The capture of Adolf Eichmann / Bela W. von Block -- The Abraham Lincoln murder mystery / Theodore Roscoe -- Slaughter by airplane / Terrence F. Flahiff -- The Archer-Shee case / Alexander Woollcott -- Mr. Hard-to-Catch / Irwin Ross -- Why the choir was late / George H. Edeal -- The letter the birds wrote / John William Rogers -- Tillie scrubbed on / William F. McDermott and Karl Detzer -- The curse of Amen-ra / Edgar Wallace -- The killer, the mother and the boy / Ernest Havemann -- Ghost dog of sunnybank / Albert Payson Terhune -- The great armored-car robbery / Frederic Sondern -- Celebrated scamp / Alva Johnston -- Portrait of Harry / Arthur Trevenning Harris -- Fortune in the grave / J. Edgar Hoover -- Ship of sleepless men / Anthony Abbot -- Miracle on the gallows / Jerome Beatty -- The unmasking of Paul "The waiter" Ricca / Louis Sidran -- No clues / Karl Detzer -- Baker Street episode / Ellery Husted -- A girl named Lavender / Carl Carmer -- The Reader's Digest murder case / Fulton Oursler -- "A mistake doesn't have to be final" / Joseph Phillips -- Britain's most baffling crime / Anthony Abbot -- The blaster / J. Edgar Hoover -- Things I can't explain / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Death in the Arctic / Arthur Train -- Impersonator extraordinary / Irwin Ross -- Bluebeard of paris / Webb Miller -- Our travels with Ho-tei / C.J. Lambert -- Who killed Les Wilson? / Joseph P. Blank -- Seeds of treason / Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky -- Evidence of the unseen / Archibald Rutledge -- The manufactured clue / Alan Hynd -- The Millvale apparition / Louis Adamic -- Ponzi's monumental swindle / Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas.

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