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by Edward Jay Epstein


  FURTHER INVESTIGATION

  To pursue any of these unsolved crimes, I recommend the following books as starting points.

  Chapter 1: The Assassination of President Lincoln

  Michael W. Kauffnan, American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (2004), Random House, New York

  Chapter 2: The Reichstag Fire

  Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1889–1936 (1999), W. W. Norton & Company, New York

  Chapter 3: The Lindbergh Kidnapping

  Jim Fisher, The Lindbergh Case (1987), Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, New Jersey

  Chapter 4: The Assassination of Olof Palme

  Jan Bondeson, Blood on the Snow: The Killing of Olof Palme (2005), Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York

  Chapter 5: The Anthrax Attack on America

  David Willman, The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America’s Rush to War (2011), Bantam Books, New York

  Chapter 6: The Pope’s Assassin

  Paul B. Henze, The Plot to Kill the Pope (1983), Scribner, New York

  Chapter 7: The Mayerling Incident

  Frederic Morton, A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888–1889 (1979), Little Brown Company, Boston

  Chapter 8: Who Killed God’s Banker?

  Charles Raw, The Money Changers: How the Vatican Bank Enabled Roberto Calvi to Steal 250 Million for the Heads of the P2 Masonic Lodge (1992), Harvill, London

  Chapter 9: The Death of Dag Hammarskjöld

  A. Susan Williams, Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa (2011), Columbia University Press, New York

  Chapter 10: The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe

  Anthony Summers, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe (1985), Macmillan, New York

  Chapter 11: The Crash of Enrico Mattei

  Nico Perrone, Enrico Mattei (2001), Mulino, Bologna, Italy

  Chapter 12: The Disappearance of Lin Biao

  Ming-le Yao, The Conspiracy and Death of Lin Biao (1983), Alfred A. Knopf, New York

  Chapter 13: The Elimination of General Zia

  George Crile, Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (2003), Atlantic Monthly Press, New York

  Chapter 14: The Submerged Spy

  Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda (1984), Ballantine Books, New York

  Chapter 15: Jack the Ripper

  Paul Begg and John Bennett, Jack the Ripper: CSI, Whitechapel (2012), Andre Deutsch, London

  Chapter 16: The Harry Oakes Murder

  John Marquis, Blood and Fire: The Duke of Windsor and the Strange Murder of Sir Harry Oakes (2005), LMH Publishing Company, Kingston, Jamaica

  Chapter 17: The Black Dahlia

  Steve Hodel, Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story (2003), Arcade Publishing, New York

  Chapter 18: The Pursuit of Dr. Sam Sheppard

  James Neff, The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case (2001), Random House, New York

  Chapter 19: The Killing of JonBenet Ramsey

  Lawrence Schiller, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder (1999), HarperCollins, New York

  Chapter 20: The Zodiac

  Robert Greysmith, Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed (2002), Berkley, New York

  Chapter 21: The Vanishing of Jimmy Hoffa

  Arthur A. Sloane, Hoffa (1991), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  Chapter 22: Death in Ukraine: The Case of the Headless Journalist

  The International Federation of Journalists, The Gongadze Inquiry: A Preliminary Investigation (2005), International Federation of Journalists, Brussels, Belgium

  Chapter 23: The Dubai Hit

  Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal, Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service (2012), Ecco, New York

  Chapter 24: The Beirut Assassination

  Nicholas Blanford, Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East (2006), I.B. Tauris, London

  Chapter 25: Who Assassinated Anna Politkovskaya?

  Anna Politkovskaya, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches (2011), Melville House, Brooklyn, New York

  Chapter 26: Blowing Up Bhutto

  James P. Farwell, The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability (2011), Potomac Books, Washington, D.C.

  Chapter 27: The Case of the Radioactive Corpse

  Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley, Londongrad: From Russia With Cash (2009), Fourth Estate, London

  Chapter 28: The Godfather Contract

  Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (1995), Pantheon, New York

  Chapter 29: The Vanishings

  Yoshi Yamamoto, Taken! North Korea’s Criminal Abductions of Citizens of Other Countries (2011), Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Washington, D.C.

  Chapter 30: The Oklahoma City Bombing

  Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles, Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters (2012), William Morrow, New York

  Chapter 31: The O. J. Simpson Nullification

  Vincent Bugliosi, Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder (1996), W.W. Norton & Company, New York

  Chapter 32: Bringing Down DSK

  Didier Hassoux, Christophe Labbé, and Olivia Recasens, L’Espion du President (2012), Robert Laffont, Paris, France

  Chapter 33: The MacDonald Massacre

  Errol Morris, A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald (2012), Penguin, New York

  Chapter 34: The Knox Ordeal

  John Follain, A Death in Italy: The Definitive Account of the Amanda Knox Case (2012), St. Martin’s Press, New York

  Epilogue: The Enduring Mystery of the JFK Assassination

  Gus Russo and Stephen Molton, Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder (2008), Bloomsbury USA, New York

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  I am deeply grateful to those who assisted my investigation of these unsolved crimes. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Renata Adler, Natalie Altshuler, Robert Asahina, Richard Bernstein, Sidney Blumenthal, Svetlana Chervonnaya, Bob Coen, Carlo Calvi, Howard Dickman, Andrea DiRobilant, Chuck Downs, Susana Duncan, Harold Edgar, Ben Gerson, Andrew Hacker, Stuart Jacobson, Haroon Khan, Humayan Khan, Billy Kimball, Jules Kroll, Jim Hougan, Grant Manheim, Zhores Medvedev, Fred Miller, Eric Nadler, Jeff Paul, Magui Nougue-Sans, Mario Platero, Seth Roberts, Fabrice Rousselot, John Rubenstein, Gus Russo, Ko Shioya, and Robert Silvers.

  Finally, I want to thank my editor Kelly Burdick at Melville House. The book benefitted enormously from his thoughtful suggestions and brilliant editing.

  Parts of this book were adapted from reporting that I did for Vanity Fair, The New York Sun, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Review of Books.

  A portion of Chapter XIII, “The Elimination of General Zia,” is taken from an article I wrote for Vanity Fair (September 1989); a portion of Chapter XXVII, “The Case of the Radioactive Corpse,” is taken from an article that appeared in the New York Sun (March 19, 2008); portions of Chapter XXIII, “The Dubai Hit,” and Chapter XXIV, “The Beirut Assassination,” are taken from articles I wrote for the Wall Street Journal (March 27, 2010 and November 26, 2010). A portion of Chapter XXXII, “Bringing Down DSK,” appeared in The New York Review of Books (December 22, 2011), which was later expanded as Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK, published as an ebook in April 2012.

 

 

 
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