From this Medieval murder mystery to the unsettling transmissions from Cold-War-era radio stations, uncover history’s most fascinating and peculiar unanswered questions. Will we ever crack the code of the Voynich Manuscript? Who really was Jack the Ripper? What’s the truth behind the Bermuda Triangle? Pick up a copy to see if you can solve history’s greatest mysteries…
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All About History History’s Greatest Mysteries - 7th Edition
MURDER IN THE TOWER • When two young princes disappeared more than 500 years ago, it sparked one of the most controversial and debated murder mysteries in history…
Countdown to murder • The final movements before the princes’ disappearance
Pretenders of the throne • The princes’ presumed murders didn’t stop people coming forward claiming to be them
WHO KILLED HENRY DARNLEY? • The murder of Mary’s husband in 1567 poses one of the biggest whodunits in British history
Drawing of a murder
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF LUDWIG II • What happened to the mad king of Bavaria?
Was Ludwig II really insane? • Declared unfit to rule without a psychiatric evaluation, the king might not have been as mad as history made him out to be
The theories of Ludwig’s death • Four theories were put forward to explain the king and his doctor’s death
Who are the Guglmänner? • An ancient society lives on to preserve the memory of Ludwig II
JACK THE RIPPER • History’s most infamous serial killer stalks the streets and the police hunt for him grows more desperate with every gruesome murder
Suspects
Jack’s victims?
UNSOLVED MURDERS AND MYSTERIOUS DEATHS • Around the world, and across the centuries, people have gone missing or been found dead, their deaths becoming a mythologised mystery
THE DYATLOV PASS MYSTERY • They were innocently hiking through the Ural Mountains – but nine young Russians never came back
Who was Semyon? • There was a further mystery with the Dyatlov Pass nine, when the identity of one of their number was investigated
THE QUEEN’S FAVOURITE • She was married to Elizabeth I’s favourite, but Amy Robsart died in mysterious circumstances at the age of just 28
BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM • The Hagley Wood mystery started with boys searching for birds’ nests, but ended as something more ominous
MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF BORGIA • Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía, was murdered in 1497 – but why, and by whom?
THE BLACK DAHLIA • Found dead and mutilated in an LA street, Elizabeth Short has been the subject of many books since
Possible poisonings • Famous people have often attracted enemies – so which ‘natural’ deaths might really have been deliberate poisonings after all?
A VANISHED COLONY: THE MYSTERY OF ROANOKE • A 16-century English settlement on America’s eastern seaboard held out great promise, and then simply disappeared. Historians have been wondering what happened ever since
Virginia Dare and the creation of a mystery • Few figures better encapsulate the American fascination with what happened at Roanoke than Virginia Dare
EXPEDITION • From the expedition’s hopeful inception to its disastrous disappearance
TERROR ON THE ICE • How an obsession with finding the fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic doomed John Franklin and his 128 men
Race against death • Frostbite is a common enemy for polar explorers. As temperatures drop, the human body struggles to cope
Faces From the Past • Scientists have been able to reconstruct the faces of remains found at Erebus Bay to identify crew members
MARITIME MYSTERIES • At the mercy of bad weather, rough seas, piracy and mutinies, disappearing boats and abandoned...