Scotland's Unsolved Mysteries of the 20th Century - Softcover

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