The Disappeared - Hardcover

The eerie roll-call of those who have disappeared mysteriously and apparently without trace sounds a troubling but strangely compulsive descant alongside the main themes and stories of human history. From the crew of the Mary Celeste to Lord Lucan, and from Ambrose Bierce to Jimmy Hoffa, history is littered with cases of perplexing disappearance. Beyond the wilder excesses of paranormal speculation and theories of alien abduction, their stories offer the inquisitive reader both the thrill of uncertainty and the excitement of informed guesswork as to the truth behind what appear to be utterly impenetrable mysteries.

The Lost Army of Cambyses (523 BC). Disaster in the Teutoburger Wald (AD 9). Arthur, Duke of Brittany (1203). The Children's Crusade (1212). François Villon (1463?). The Princes in the Tower (1483). John Cabot (1498). The Lost Colony of Roanoke Island (1587). Count Phillip Christoph von Königsmarck (1694). Comte de la Pérouse (1788). Benjamin Bathurst (1809). Franklin's Last Expedition (1845-51?). Ludwig Leichhardt (1848). Mary Celeste (1872). The Outlaw Charles E. Boles (1888). The Keepers of the Flannan Isles (1900). Rudolph Diesel (1913). Ambrose Bierce (1913). The Dead of the Menin Gate (1914-18). Mallory and Irvine (1924). Colonel Percy Fawcett (1925). Agatha Christie (1926). Amelia Earhart (1937). Rose Cohen (1937). Amy Johnson (1941). Noor Inayat Khan (1943). Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1944). Glenn Miller (1944). Raoul Wallenberg (1945). Subhas Chandra Bose (1945). Lionel 'Buster' Crabb (1956). Harold Holt (1967). Lord Lucan (1974). Jimmy Hoffa (1975). The Victims of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83).