Twelve extraordinary crimes. Some solved. Some still hiding their answers.
Twelve extraordinary crimes. Some solved. Some still hiding their answers.
Detective Files Book Five uncovers a collection of disturbing, unusual and frequently overlooked cases from Britain, America, Australia and New Zealand.
A human arm is pulled from the stomach of a captured shark, exposing a criminal conspiracy in Sydney. A serial killer known as the Gorilla Man stalks women across North America. A wealthy minister and his lover are discovered murdered beneath a crabapple tree. In Denver, an elderly fugitive secretly lives inside another man’s house — watching and waiting from the shadows.
The collection also examines the mysterious Servant Girl Annihilator murders, the poisoning cases of Anna Marie Hahn, Minnie Dean and Martha Needle, the unsolved Peasenhall murder, the strange death of Charles Walton beneath Meon Hill, the killing of Hollywood heiress Georgette Bauerdorf and the deadly marriage career of Johann Otto Hoch.
Every case has been carefully researched and written in the gripping style of a classic true-detective magazine. Documented evidence is separated from rumour, folklore and sensational newspaper reporting, while disputed suspects and unproved victim counts are clearly identified.
Inside this volume you will discover:
- Twelve detailed historical true-crime investigations
- A mixture of solved and unsolved cases
- Serial killers, poisoners, mysterious disappearances and baffling murders
- The forensic evidence that exposed several seemingly undetectable killers
- Suspects who escaped prosecution despite years of suspicion
- The mistakes, coincidences and surviving witnesses that changed investigations
- Obscure cases rarely covered in modern true-crime collections
These are not fictional mysteries. They are real cases involving victims whose stories deserve to be remembered and questions that continue to trouble investigators and historians.
For readers of historical crime, unsolved mysteries, vintage detective magazines and in-depth criminal investigations, Detective Files Book Five opens twelve case files that refuse to remain buried.
