The World's Most Intriguing True Mysteries

by Rupert Furneaux

Book Overview

New Light is shed on thirty-three of the greatest enigmas of all time, strange disappearances, problems of identity, curious happenings, and other mysteries that have intrigued the world for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B00126N16Q
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Arco Publishing
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What happened to the one I wrote?

Actually, I already did some reviewing and correcting. You didn't like my review? I took the trouble [and it was reasonably time-consuming], to list all of the mysteries covered because I figured that readers interested in information on a particular mystery would appreciate knowing if this book contained any.

Not for the Overly Credulous

My parents gave me this book for Easter in the late 1960s. It was my childhood introduction to several famous mysteries. If you're looking for wild speculation, this is not the book for you. Although some of the author's remarks would not pass the "political correctness test" today, on the whole he took a sensible/skeptical look at his subjects. Those mysteries are: Count Konigsmark, the ladies who believed that they had walked back in time and saw Marie Antoinette, Amy Robsart, Prince Albert's father, was it Jeanne d'Arc [Joan of Arc] who was burned at the stake?, Barabbas, the Mayas, the treasure of the Tuamatos, the lost Dutchman's Mine, the sacred treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem, Flavius Josephus, Golgotha's location, Amelia Earhart, the 1959 Siberian explosion, Mayerling, the Lost Tribes of Israel, the two children who died in the train wreck at Charfield in 1928, Father Borynski's disappearance, Peter Ney, Thomas Charles Druce, Victor Grayson, Commander Crabb, the Shroud of Turin, Borley Rectory, the Englishwoman's mother vanishes from their hotel, the Trodmore Hunt Steeplechase, the Russian Reinforcements rumor of 1914, the race horse called Tetrarch [this one I didn't believe], the Devil at South Devon, Brendan the Navigator, Glamis, the moving coffins in the Chase family vault, and "Pattee's Caves" in North Salem, New Hampshire. The book includes a bibliography and an index. The artist(s?) for the black and white illustrations are not listed, but some of them bear the name "Eisner". The name on the front of the dustjacket is "J. Berger". Do I still find the book interesting? Last week I meant only to reread the chapter on a mystery that was the basis for a novel I had just read. I finally (and reluctantly) put it down because it was getting too late for a worknight.