Scotland's Unsolved Mysteries of the 20th Century Revised edition by Wilson, Richard (2001) Paperback

by Richard Wilson

Like puzzles and paradoxes and unmarked graves, unsolved crimes exert a powerful pull on the human mind. In this tightly written narrative, Richard Wilson looks into fifteen enigmatic cases of death and disappearance. Here are the three lighthouse keepers who vanished without a trace, the ex-RAF pilot who disappeared on a routine Christmas Eve flight, the woman whose dismembered forearm set off an intensive-and ultimately fruitless-search by the Aberdeen police. Must reading for anyone interested in true crime stories. The son of a Scottish police detective, Richard Wilson comes naturally by his interest in true crime. He is assistant editor of the

Genres: History, Scotland, Nonfiction

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[Alexander · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was less a collection of unsolved mysteries so much a list of terrible things that have happened in scotland. With a lot of these there is no question about what happened simply a small question about details. Even those cases where there was a question the author just gave a list of what happened rather then the theories as to the answer.