The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crimes

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SOURCES

The editor would like to thank the following people and organizations for their kind permission to reprint the following:

Mrs Betty Allsop for Kenneth Allsop, The Short, Sweet Martyrdom of Jake Lingle from The Bootleggers (Hutchinson 1961); Campbell Thomson & McLaughlin for Eric Ambler, Dr John Bodkin Adams © 1999 Eric Ambler from The Ability to Kill (Bodley Head 1961); John Austin for Colonel Hogan’s Unsolved Murder © John Austin 1991, 1994; The Estate of the late Christianna Brand and A. M. Heath for Christianna Brand, Murder Hath Charms from Brand X (Michael Joseph 1974, © Christianna Brand); Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., for Angela Carter, The Fall River Axe Murders, copyright © 1985 Angela Carter. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN; Solo Syndication Ltd. for John Edwards, Fools and Horses (Daily Mail, 12 March 1994); Orbis Publishing for Daniel Farson, The Case of the Salmon Sandwiches from Unsolved (1984); Patricia Hobson and Lawrence Hughes for The Case of the Movie Murder copyright © 1946 by Erle Stanley Gardner, copyright renewed 1972 by Jean Bethel Gardner and Grace Naso, first published in TRUE, June 1946, and here published by arrangement with Hobson & Hughes LLC; Jonathan Goodman for A Coincidence of Corpses from The Railway Murders (Allison & Busby 1984); J.A. Harding and David Evans for F. Tennyson Jesse, Checkmate; Noel Hynd for Alan Hynd, The Built-in Lover from Murder, Mayhem and Mystery (A. S. Barnes and Co. 1958); Brian Masters for Evidence by Entrapment; Russell Miller for The Obsession with the Black Dahlia from Black Dahlia Website; Mrs Sheena Ellis for William Roughead, The Secret of Ireland’s Eye from Famous Crimes (Faber 1935); David James Smith for The Secret Janet Took to the Grave © 2004 David James Smith. A version of this article first appeared in 1995 in the Sunday Times Magazine; Tom Smith-Hughes for Jack Smith-Hughes, Temptation and the Elder from Eight Studies in Justice (Cassell 1953); Philip Sugden for Jack the Ripper; Mrs Kathleen Symons for Julian Symons, Death of a Millionaire from A Reasonable Doubt (Cresset Press 1960); Viking-Penguin for James Thurber, A Sort of Genius from Vintage Thurber (Hamish Hamilton 1963); David Wallechinsky for Irving Wallace, The Real Marie Roget from The Fabulous Originals (Longmans 1955); Express Syndication for Rebecca West, The Man Who Contracted Out of Humanity, from the Evening Standard (27 January 1950); Orbis Publishing for Colin Wilson, The Zodiac Murders from Unsolved (1984); Robinson Publishing for Kirk Wilson, The Dumb Blonde Who Knew Too Much from Investigating Murder (1993); Viking-Penguin, a division of Penguin Putman Inc. for Alexander Woollcott, The Mystery of the Hansom Cab from While Rome Burns © 1943, renewed by Joseph P. Hennessey 1962.

Every effort has been made to trace the original copyright holders of the following, without success; the editor and publishers would be pleased to hear from any claimant to legal copyright of:

Douglas G. Browne and E. V. Tullett, The Murder of Margery Wren from Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases (Harrap 1952); Dorothy Dunbar, And to Hell with Burgundy from Blood in the Parlor (A. S. Barnes 1962); Nina Warner Hooke and Gil Thomas, The Camden Town Murder from Marshall Hall (Arthur Barker 1966); Sydney Horler, The Hoop-la Murder Trial from Malefactors’ Row (Robert Hale 1940); Morris Markey, The Mysterious Death of Starr Faithfull from The Aspirin Age 1919-1941 (Touchstone, nd); Maurice Moiseiwitsch, Florence Maybrick from Five Famous Trials (Heinemann 1962); Elliott O’Donnell, What Became of Martin Guerre from Strange Disappearances (The Bodley Head 1927); Edmund Pearson, The Death of Bella Wright from More Studies in Murder (Smith & Haas 1936); John du Rose for Jack the Stripper from Murder Was My Business (W. H. Allen 1971); Damon Runyon, Arnold Rothstein’s Final Payoff from New York American (1929); Louis Stark, A Case that Rocked the World from We Saw It Happen (Simon & Schuster 1938); and C. J. S. Thompson, The Mystery of the Poisoned Partridges from Poison Mysteries Unsolved (Hutchinson 1937).