The Mystery Of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: The Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappeared with all 107 passengers on this day in 1962. 

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliner chartered by the United States military that disappeared on March 16, 1962, over the Western Pacific Ocean. The aircraft was transporting 93 U.S. soldiers and three South Vietnamese from Travis Air Force Base, California to Saigon, Vietnam. After refueling at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, the Super Constellation was en route to Clark Air Base in the Philippines when it disappeared. All 107 aboard were declared missing and presumed dead.

The day prior "marked the first day of the Vietnam War Campaign, according to U.S. Army historians. It was a time when the U.S. was quietly increasing its presence in Vietnam, sending advisers and equipment, such as those on Flight 739, to bolster the government of the Republic of Vietnam against the VietCong insurgency.

'There’s nothing, no trace of anything,' said Jennifer Kirk, niece of an Army Ranger who was on board Flight 739. 

Sixty years later, there’s still little trace that the lives of the service-members were even lost to the Vietnam War. Their names have been excluded from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., a wrong their families are trying to right.

'They’re being pushed aside to be forgotten,' Kirk said. 'That’s incomprehensible. They can’t be forgotten.'" Source

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The Disappearance of the Beaumont Children on This Day in History

This Day in History: Jane Nartare Beaumont, Arnna Kathleen Beaumont and Grant Ellis Beaumont, collectively known as the Beaumont children, were three Australian siblings who disappeared from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia, on 26 January 1966 (Australia Day) in a suspected abduction and murder. At the time of their disappearance they were aged nine, seven and four years, respectively.

Police investigations revealed that, on the day of their disappearance, several witnesses had seen the children on and near Glenelg Beach in the company of a tall man with fairish to light-brown hair and a thin face with a sun-tanned complexion and medium build, aged in his mid-thirties. Confirmed sightings of the three children occurred at the Colley Reserve and at Wenzel's cake shop on Moseley Street, Glenelg. Despite numerous searches, neither the children nor their suspected companion were located.

The case received extensive police and media attention in Australia and across the globe, quickly attracting numerous suspects, hoaxes and theories. The disappearance is widely credited with causing a change in Australian lifestyles, since parents began to believe that their children could no longer be presumed to be safe when unsupervised in public. The regular and widespread attention given to the case, its significance in Australian criminal history and the fact that the mystery of the children's disappearance has never been explained has led to the story being of continuous public interest more than half a century on. As of 2018, a $1 million reward has been offered for information related to the cold case by the South Australian government.

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The Strange Mystery of Edwin Drood on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: A 9th instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood was supposed to be published on this day in 1870. This final novel by Charles Dickens was never completed as Dickens passed away on June 9th of that year.

However, things don't quite end there. Thomas Power James (better known as T. P. James) in Brattleboro, Vermont, claimed, in 1872, that Charles Dickens contacted him from beyond the grave and gave him power of attorney to complete The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 

"Numerous witnesses later testified that James would retire to his room, slump in a chair and go into trances that often lasted for hours. Afterward, young James would often write furiously, explaining to his friends that he was creating nothing...merely writing down the material which Dickens had given to him while he was entranced. Sometimes the material would cover many pages; at other times it consisted of only a few lines. Spirits, it seemed, had difficulties in transmission when the weather was bad." Stranger than Science by Frank Edwards.

Word got out about this strange project and many decried this all as a hoax, but when it was published on October 31 1873, the T.P. James became an overnight sensation. Many were astounded as to how remarkably the young man was able to write in Dickens' own voice. There were critics as well, but even Sherlock Holmes' creator Arthur Conan Doyle commented that "If it be indeed a parody it has the rare merit among parodies of never accentuating or exaggerating the peculiarities of the original." 

T. P. James eventually faded from the public spotlight and would go on to die in obscurity.

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The Art & History of the Chess Game - 100 PDF Books to Download

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The History of Chess from the time of the early invention of the game in India to its Establishment in Western and Central Europe by Duncan Forbes 1860

Chess Made Easy by George Walker 1839

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Chess-humanics - A Philosophy of Chess a Social Allegory, Parallelism Between the Game of Chess and our Larger Human Affairs by Wallace E Neville 1905

Chess for Beginners In a Series of Progressive Lessons - The Most Approved Methods for Beginning and Ending the Game, with Various Situations and Checkmates by William Lewis 1837

Chess and War, article in The Eclectic Magazine 1871

Chess Openings for Beginners by Edward Ernest Cunnington 1900 (with Illustrations)

The Modern Chess Instructor by W Steinitz 1889

The Psychology of Chess, article in The American Journal of Psychology 1907

Chess for Beginners by RB Swinton 1891

The Chess Primer (with Illustrations) by William Cook 1880

Chess by David Mitchell 1917 (with Illustrations)

Chess Gems  - Some of the Finest Examples of Chess Strategy by Ancient and Modern Masters by John A Miles 1860

Chess Fundamentals by Jose Raul Capablanca 1921 (with Illustrations)

The Art of Chess by James Mason 1895 (with Illustrations)

The Chess-Player's Handbook (with Illustrations) by Howard Staunton 1890 *

The Chess-player's Hand-book Containing a Full Account of the Game of Chess by Pierce Saxton 1844 *

Practical Chess Grammar by WS Kenny 1817 (with Illustrations)

Practical Chess Exercises Intended as a sequel to the practical chess grammar containing various openings, games, and situations for the use of those who have already a knowledge of the game by WS Kenney 1818 (with Illustrations)

Problems in Chess by John Wilkinson 1876 (with Illustrations)

Book of Chess Problems by John K. Hanshew 1874 (with Illustrations)

One Hundred Chess Problems by Arthur Cyril Pearson 1883 (with Illustrations)

A Treatise on the Game of Chess by William Lewis 1844 (containing an introduction to the game, and an analysis of the various openings of games, with several new modes of attack and defence to which are added 25 new chess problems on diagrams)

Mathematical Recreations and Essays by WW Rouse Ball 1920

Pollock Memories: A Collection of Chess Games, Problems by William Henry Krause Pollock 1899

Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker 1910

The Grand Tactics of Chess, an Exposition of the Laws and Principles of Chess Strategetics, the practical application of these laws and principles to the movement of forces; mobilization, development, manoeuvre, and operation by Franklin Young 1898

The Minor Tactics of Chess - a treatise on the development of the forces in obedience to strategic principle by FK young 1901

Chess Match Between Steinitz & Blackburne 1876 (William Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier. Steinitz lost his title to Emanuel Lasker in 1894 and also lost a rematch in 1897)

Amusements in Mathematics by Henry E Dudeney 1917 (Chessboard Problems, The Chessboard, Statical Chess Puzzles, The Guarded Chessboard, Dynamical Chess Puzzles, Various Chess) Puzzles

Chess World Magazine 1868 (first 319 pages only)

Fifty Games at Chess which have actually been Played by W Lewis 1821

Chess problems by George E Carpenter 1886 (with Illustrations)

The Court-Gamester - Full and easy instructions for playing the games now in vogue 1722 by Richard Seymour

An easy introduction to the game of chess by Benjamin Franklin 1816

Morphy's Games of Chess by Paul Charles Morphy 1898

Scientific Amusements in philosophy and mathematics by William Enfield 1821 (To make the knight pass overall the squares of the chess board, without passing twice over the same)

Japanese Chess (shogni): the science and Art of War or Struggle by Cho-yo 1905

Chess Chips - Consisting of Anecdotes, essays and games by  J. Paul Taylor 1878

Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Mystery writer) 1898

Philosophy in sport made science in earnest by John Ayrton Paris 1827

The New Century Chess-book and Companion to the Chess Player's Pocket-book by James Mortimer 1901

The Chess-player's Companion by Howard Staunton 1849

Studies of chess by Peter Pratt, Volume 1, 1814*

Studies of chess by Peter Pratt, Volume 2, 1814

The Book of Chess containing the rudiments of the game, and elementary analyses of the most popular openings by HR Agnel 1858

Chess Sparks - Short and bright games of chess by John Henry Ellis 1895

Memorable Chess Games, brilliants and miniatures, with notes, queries and answers by W Moffatt 1913

Chess: Theory & Practice- containing the laws & history of the game together with an analysis of the openings, & a treatise of end games by Howard Staunton 1876

Analysis of the Game of Chess by FD Philidor 1824

The Philosophy of Chess By William Cluley 1857

Blindfold Chess: The Single Game, article in Studies in Psychology 1917

Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature by Willard Fiske 1905

Maelzel's Chess Player by Edgar Allen Poe 1857

The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the earliest period by Joseph Strutt 1903 ("John de Vigney wrote a book which he called The Moralisation of Chess, wherein he assures us that this game was invented by a philosopher named Xerxes in the reign of Evil Merodach, king of Babylon, and was made known to that monarch in order to engage his attention and correct his manners."

Chess and Playing Cards by Stewart Culin 1898

The Chess Player's Chronicle by Howard Staunton 1841

Chancellor Chess - The New Game of Chess by Benjamin Foster 1889

Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest by John A Payris 1857

Chess Strategics Illustrated by Franklin K Young 1900

Chess Generalship by Franklin K Young 1910

The Game of Chess by Henry Chadwick 1895

The Principles of Chess in Theory and Practice by James Mason 1894

The Art of Chess-Play by George Walker 1846

Chess Openings by Frank James Marshall 1904

Chess Openings by Frederick William Longman 1870

Chess Openings by Robert Bownas Wormald 1875

Synopsis of Chess Openings, a Tabular Analysis by William Cooks 1884

Chess Openings Ancient and Modern by E Freeborough 1905

The Chess Player by George Walker 1841

Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and other Matters by Richard Penn 1842

The Game of the Chesse by William Caxion 1855 (reproduction of a very old book)

The Middle Game in Chess by Eugene Znosko-Borovskii 1922

Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker 1921

Chess and Chess-Players by George Walker 1850

Chess Praxis - A Supplement to the Chess Player's Handbook by H Staunton 1860

Games Ancient and Oriental and how to Play Them, being the games of the ancient Egyptians, the Hiera Gramme of the Greeks, the Ludus Latrunculorum of the Romans and the oriental games of chess, draughts, backgammon and magic squares by Edward Falkener 1892

Games of Skill 1861

Foster's Complete Hoyle 1916

The Players' Lexicon by AT Thayer 1877

Observations on the Origin and Progress of Chess by Duncan Forbes 1855

Chess, by a Tenth-Rate Plater, article in Lippincott's Magazine 1871

How to Play Chess by Charlotte Boardman Rogers 1907

Magic Squares and Cubes by WS Andrews 1917

Chess Stars: A Galaxy of Self-mates by John A Miles 1888

The Complete Guide to the Game of Draughts (Checkers) by James Lees 1892

Checker Classics by Errol A Smith 1922

Checkers by David A Mitchell 1918

Checkers a Treatise on the Game by A Howard Cady 1896

Checkers Improved by ST Livermore 1896

Checkers World Champions 1914

Checkers 1890

The Checker Primer 1887

The Elements of Draughts by IDJ Sweet 1859

Vocabulary of Checkers by William Timothy Call 1909

Plus you get the following books on Chess in Literature (Fiction):

Digby: Chess Professor By Charles Edward Barns 1889

Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce 1920

Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 1910

The Mystery of the Downs by John Watson 1918

The Hamstead Mystery by John Watson 1916

The Maurice Mystery by John E Cooke 1885

Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Mystery writer) 1898

The Startling Exploits of Dr. J.B. Quies by Paul Celieres 1887 ("The world might fall into ruins around the Cafe de la Regence, where the chess-players congregate, and not one of them would seem to be aware of the occurrence.")

Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe 1846 ("A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.")

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The Three Apples (Arabian Nights, Volume 1) 1901 (In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces.)

Zadig by Voltaire 1910 (Written in 1748 this is one of the earliest examples of detective fiction which features a main character who performs feats of analysis.)

Bel and the Dragon (Jewish Apocryphal story, the world's Oldest Locked Room Mystery)

The Story of Susanna (Jewish Apocryphal story, the world's Oldest Courtroom Drama)

Eumenides by Aeschylus (2500 year old work with a Jury Trial)

The Trail of the Serpent by Mary E Braddon 1861 ("A strong argument can be made that Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent is a detective story — perhaps the first full-length one." Yahoo FictionMags)

Caleb Williams by William Godwin 1831 (considered by some to be the first crime novel)

Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 1824 (part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-curio, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction)

The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott 1875 (fictional account of an actual murder)

Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang 1904 (14 Mysteries)

The Works of Gaboriau 1908 (M.Lecoq - The Honor of the Name - The Lerouge Affair - File Number 113 - The Little Old Man of Batignolles)

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe 1908

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1894

Bleak House by Charles Dickens 1906

The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle 1912

The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle 1892

Armadale by Wilkie Collins 1897

The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 by Eugene Sue 1845

The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 by Eugene Sue 1845

The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 by Eugene Sue 1845

The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue 1889 Volume 1

The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue 1889 Volume 2

The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue 1889 Volume 3

History of the Thirteen by Honore be Balzac 1896

The Leo Frank Case - The Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery 1913

The House Opposite - a Mystery (1902) by Elizabeth Kent

The Murder of Edwin Drood Recounted by PT Carden 1920

The mystery in the Drood Family by M Saunders 1914

Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume 1889

The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson 1911

The New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson 1905

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated) 1892

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated) 1905

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1902

His Last Bow - a Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1917

The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison 1896

The Red Triangle, Further chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison 1903

The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison 1903

A Thief in the Night by EW Hornung 1905

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by C. L. Pirkis 1894(perhaps the first female sleuth)

Hilda Wade by Grant Allen (completed by Conan Doyle) 1900

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (uses Detective skills)

The Old Man in the Corner by Baronness Orczy 1908

The Mystery of the Green Ray by William Le Queux 1915

The Count's Chauffeur by William Le Queux 1908

The Passenger from Scotland Yard by HF Wood 1888

The Great Tontine by Hawley Smart 1882

The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin Freeman 1908 (perhaps the first story involving fingerprint evidence)'

John Silence by Algernon Blackwood (psychic detective) 1915

The Triumph of Eugene Valmont by Robert Barr (early Poirot like detection) 1906

The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry 1919

The Beetle by Richard Marsh 1917 (a mix of horror and detective story)

The Childerbridge Mystery by Guy Boothby 1902

The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart 1908

The Man in lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart 1909

In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis 1901

At the Villa Rose by A. E. W. Mason 1910

Arsène Lupin: An Adventure Story by by Maurice Leblanc 1909 (Arsene Lupin was France's Sherlock Holmes)

Arsene Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (yes, it really is spelled that way in this book) by Maurice Leblanc 1910

The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc (there's even a character in here named "Holmlock Shears) 1910

813 by Maurice Leblanc (Lupin’s greatest case...also in Kindle format)

Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries by Melville Davidson Post 1918 (kindle format also) (considered by one blogger to be the finest collection of American detective stories since Poe)

Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason by Melville Davidson Post 1896

Terence O'Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer by LJ Vance 1905

The Lone Wolf by LJ Vance 1914 (probably the first gentleman crook)

The Achievements of Luther Trant 1910 (maybe the first psychological detective)

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer 1920

The Silent Bullet (Scientific Sleuth) by Arthur Reeve 1910

The Secret House by Edgar Wallace 1919

The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace 1920 (the prototype of the modern thriller)

The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes 1914 (A haunting mystery tale that revolves around the Jack the Ripper murders, this novel was the basis for several films)

The Red House Mystery by AA Milne 1922, a famous whodunit by the author of the Winnie the Pooh books.

Six Cent Sam (Mr. Dunton's Invention, Greaves' Disappearance, Raxworthy's Treasure, The John North Mystery, A Model Murder, The Symposium)

Twelve Scots Trials by William Roughead 1913 (The Parson of Spott, The doom of Lady Warriston, Touching one Major Weir, a warlock, The ordeal of Philip Stanfield, The ghost of Sergeant Davies, Katharine Nairn, Keith of Northfield, "The wife o'Denside", Concerning Christina Gilmour, The St. Fergus affair, The Dunecht mystery, The Arran Murder)

The Dark House - A Knot Unravelled by George Manville Fenn 1885

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1 by Julian Hawthorne 1908

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 2 by Julian Hawthorne 1908

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3 by Julian Hawthorne 1908

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4 by Julian Hawthorne 1908

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5 by Julian Hawthorne 1908

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6 by Julian Hawthorne 1908 (101 Tales in 6 Volumes)

The Black Cap - New Stories of Murder and Mystery (14 stories)

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet- a Detective Story by B Stevenson 1912

Masterpieces of Mystery, Volume 1 by Joseph French 1922

Masterpieces of Mystery, Volume 2 by Joseph French 1922

Masterpieces of Mystery, Volume 3 by Joseph French 1922

Masterpieces of Mystery, Volume 4 by Joseph French 1922 (About 36 tales in all)

The Innocence of Father Brown by GKC 1911

The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare by GKC 1908

Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley 1913

A Mediaeval Burglary by TF Tout 1916

Satan Absolved - a Victorian mystery (poem) by WS Blunt 1899

The Great Crime of 1860 by Joseph Whitaker Stapleton (this is now the basis of a new bestseller called the Suspicions of Mr Whicher)

The Leavenworth Case: a Lawyer's Story by Anna Katharine Green 1906

The Filigree Ball, being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair by Anna Katharine Green 1903

A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green 1879

The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green 1906

The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green 1905

The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green 1905

The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

Room Number 3 and other Mystery Stories by Anna Katharine Green 1913

THE MILL MYSTERY BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

The Golden Slipper and other Problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green 1915

True Stories of Crime from the District Attorney's Office by Arthur Cheney Train 1908
Contents: THE WOMAN IN THE CASE, FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, THE LOST STRADIVARIUS, THE LAST OF THE WIRE-TAPPERS, THE FRANKLIN SYNDICATE, A STUDY IN FINANCE, THE "DUC DE NEVERS", A FINDER OF MISSING HEIRS, A MURDER CONSPIRACY, A FLIGHT INTO TEXAS, A CASE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

Bucholz and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton 1880

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The Maurice Mystery by John Esten Cooke 1885

The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill 1895 (The Big Bow Mystery was the first locked room murder novel. It has been almost continuously in print since 1891 and has been used as the basis for three commercial films.)

The Hunt Ball Mystery by William Magnay 1918

The Dark House - A Knot Unravelled by George Manville Fenn 1885

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux in wordpard and text format
(In 1898, Elisabeth, Empress of Austria-Hungary, was on the quay at Lake Geneva awaiting the steam ferry to Montreux when, without warning or apparent motive, the anarchist Luigi Lucheni plunged a needle file into her heart. Because of the very thin nature of the wound, the Empress did not realise that she had been fatally injured and walked unaided to her cabin, where she collapsed and soon died.[citation needed] It is not known whether she locked the cabin door behind her - which would have created the appearance of a locked room murder. At least one prominent French locked room expert, Roland Lacourbe, believes that this notorious event was the inspiration for Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room)

Hide and Seek; Or, The Mystery of Mary Grice: A Novel by Wilkie Collins 1898

The mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 1870

Famous Mysteries: Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life by John Elfreth Watkins - 1919
(The Strange Case of Marie Lafarge - The most baffling of all French murder mysteries involved the daughter of one of Napoleon's favorite officers, Colonel Cappelle, of the Old Guard. This beautiful girl was also the granddaughter of the famous Duke of Orleans (Philippe Egalite) and of his companion and housekeeper, Mme. de Genlis.)
 
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1893
(The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'.)

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 1874 (considered the first detective novel in the English language)
 
No Name by Wilkie Collins 1893
(The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it is revealed that they were not married at the time of their daughters' births, making their daughters "Nobody's Children" in the eyes of English law and robbing them of their inheritance. Andrew Vanstone's elder brother Michael gleefully takes possession of his brother's fortune, leaving his nieces to make their own way in the world. Norah, the elder sister, accepts her misfortune gracefully, but the headstrong Magdalen is determined to have her revenge. Using her dramatic talent and assisted by wily swindler Captain Wragge, Magdalen plots to regain her rightful inheritance.)

The Ghost's Touch by Wilkie Collins (part of "I Say No"; Or, The Love-letter Answered: And Other Stories by Wilkie Collins) 1893
 
Masterpieces of Mystery by Joseph Lewis French 1920

Mysteries of Police and Crime: A General Survey of Wrongdoing and Its Pursuit by Arthur Griffiths 1899

Twenty-five Years of Detective Life by Jerome Caminada 1895
 
Fifty Years a Detective by Thomas Furlong 1912

Why Some Men Kill; Or, Murder Mysteries Revealed by George A. Thacher 1919

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The Art & Mystery of the Chess Game - 100 Books to Download

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Contents:

The History of Chess from the time of the early invention of the game in India to its Establishment in Western and Central Europe by Duncan Forbes 1860

Chess Made Easy by George Walker 1839

For a list of all of my disks, with links, click here

Chess-humanics - A Philosophy of Chess a Social Allegory, Parallelism Between the Game of Chess and our Larger Human Affairs by Wallace E Neville 1905

Chess for Beginners In a Series of Progressive Lessons - The Most Approved Methods for Beginning and Ending the Game, with Various Situations and Checkmates by William Lewis 1837

Chess and War, article in The Eclectic Magazine 1871

Chess Openings for Beginners by Edward Ernest Cunnington 1900 (with Illustrations)

The Modern Chess Instructor by W Steinitz 1889

The Psychology of Chess, article in The American Journal of Psychology 1907

Chess for Beginners by RB Swinton 1891

The Chess Primer (with Illustrations) by William Cook 1880

Chess by David Mitchell 1917 (with Illustrations)

Chess Gems  - Some of the Finest Examples of Chess Strategy by Ancient and Modern Masters by John A Miles 1860

Chess Fundamentals by Jose Raul Capablanca 1921 (with Illustrations)

The Art of Chess by James Mason 1895 (with Illustrations)

The Chess-Player's Handbook (with Illustrations) by Howard Staunton 1890 *

The Chess-player's Hand-book Containing a Full Account of the Game of Chess by Pierce Saxton 1844 *

Practical Chess Grammar by WS Kenny 1817 (with Illustrations)

Practical Chess Exercises Intended as a sequel to the practical chess grammar containing various openings, games, and situations for the use of those who have already a knowledge of the game by WS Kenney 1818 (with Illustrations)

Problems in Chess by John Wilkinson 1876 (with Illustrations)

Book of Chess Problems by John K. Hanshew 1874 (with Illustrations)

One Hundred Chess Problems by Arthur Cyril Pearson 1883 (with Illustrations)

A Treatise on the Game of Chess by William Lewis 1844 (containing an introduction to the game, and an analysis of the various openings of games, with several new modes of attack and defence to which are added 25 new chess problems on diagrams)

Mathematical Recreations and Essays by WW Rouse Ball 1920

Pollock Memories: A Collection of Chess Games, Problems by William Henry Krause Pollock 1899

Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker 1910

The Grand Tactics of Chess, an Exposition of the Laws and Principles of Chess Strategetics, the practical application of these laws and principles to the movement of forces; mobilization, development, manoeuvre, and operation by Franklin Young 1898

The Minor Tactics of Chess - a treatise on the development of the forces in obedience to strategic principle by FK young 1901

Chess Match Between Steinitz & Blackburne 1876 (William Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier. Steinitz lost his title to Emanuel Lasker in 1894 and also lost a rematch in 1897)

Amusements in Mathematics by Henry E Dudeney 1917 (Chessboard Problems, The Chessboard, Statical Chess Puzzles, The Guarded Chessboard, Dynamical Chess Puzzles, Various Chess) Puzzles

Chess World Magazine 1868 (first 319 pages only)

Fifty Games at Chess which have actually been Played by W Lewis 1821

Chess problems by George E Carpenter 1886 (with Illustrations)

The Court-Gamester - Full and easy instructions for playing the games now in vogue 1722 by Richard Seymour

An easy introduction to the game of chess by Benjamin Franklin 1816

Morphy's Games of Chess by Paul Charles Morphy 1898

Scientific Amusements in philosophy and mathematics by William Enfield 1821 (To make the knight pass overall the squares of the chess board, without passing twice over the same)

Japanese Chess (shogni): the science and Art of War or Struggle by Cho-yo 1905

Chess Chips - Consisting of Anecdotes, essays and games by  J. Paul Taylor 1878

Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Mystery writer) 1898

Philosophy in sport made science in earnest by John Ayrton Paris 1827

The New Century Chess-book and Companion to the Chess Player's Pocket-book by James Mortimer 1901

The Chess-player's Companion by Howard Staunton 1849

Studies of chess by Peter Pratt, Volume 1, 1814*

Studies of chess by Peter Pratt, Volume 2, 1814

The Book of Chess containing the rudiments of the game, and elementary analyses of the most popular openings by HR Agnel 1858

Chess Sparks - Short and bright games of chess by John Henry Ellis 1895

Memorable Chess Games, brilliants and miniatures, with notes, queries and answers by W Moffatt 1913

Chess: Theory & Practice- containing the laws & history of the game together with an analysis of the openings, & a treatise of end games by Howard Staunton 1876

Analysis of the Game of Chess by FD Philidor 1824

The Philosophy of Chess By William Cluley 1857

Blindfold Chess: The Single Game, article in Studies in Psychology 1917

Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature by Willard Fiske 1905

Maelzel's Chess Player by Edgar Allen Poe 1857

The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the earliest period by Joseph Strutt 1903 ("John de Vigney wrote a book which he called The Moralisation of Chess, wherein he assures us that this game was invented by a philosopher named Xerxes in the reign of Evil Merodach, king of Babylon, and was made known to that monarch in order to engage his attention and correct his manners."

Chess and Playing Cards by Stewart Culin 1898

The Chess Player's Chronicle by Howard Staunton 1841

Chancellor Chess - The New Game of Chess by Benjamin Foster 1889

Philosophy in Sport made Science in Earnest by John A Payris 1857

Chess Strategics Illustrated by Franklin K Young 1900

Chess Generalship by Franklin K Young 1910

The Game of Chess by Henry Chadwick 1895

The Principles of Chess in Theory and Practice by James Mason 1894

The Art of Chess-Play by George Walker 1846

Chess Openings by Frank James Marshall 1904

Chess Openings by Frederick William Longman 1870

Chess Openings by Robert Bownas Wormald 1875

Synopsis of Chess Openings, a Tabular Analysis by William Cooks 1884

Chess Openings Ancient and Modern by E Freeborough 1905

The Chess Player by George Walker 1841

Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and other Matters by Richard Penn 1842

The Game of the Chesse by William Caxion 1855 (reproduction of a very old book)

The Middle Game in Chess by Eugene Znosko-Borovskii 1922

Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker 1921

Chess and Chess-Players by George Walker 1850

Chess Praxis - A Supplement to the Chess Player's Handbook by H Staunton 1860

Games Ancient and Oriental and how to Play Them, being the games of the ancient Egyptians, the Hiera Gramme of the Greeks, the Ludus Latrunculorum of the Romans and the oriental games of chess, draughts, backgammon and magic squares by Edward Falkener 1892

Games of Skill 1861

Foster's Complete Hoyle 1916

The Players' Lexicon by AT Thayer 1877

Observations on the Origin and Progress of Chess by Duncan Forbes 1855

Chess, by a Tenth-Rate Plater, article in Lippincott's Magazine 1871

How to Play Chess by Charlotte Boardman Rogers 1907

Magic Squares and Cubes by WS Andrews 1917

Chess Stars: A Galaxy of Self-mates by John A Miles 1888

The Complete Guide to the Game of Draughts (Checkers) by James Lees 1892

Checker Classics by Errol A Smith 1922

Checkers by David A Mitchell 1918

Checkers a Treatise on the Game by A Howard Cady 1896

Checkers Improved by ST Livermore 1896

Checkers World Champions 1914

Checkers 1890

The Checker Primer 1887

The Elements of Draughts by IDJ Sweet 1859

Vocabulary of Checkers by William Timothy Call 1909

Plus you get the following books on Chess in Literature (Fiction):

Digby: Chess Professor By Charles Edward Barns 1889

Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce 1920

Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 1910

The Mystery of the Downs by John Watson 1918

The Hamstead Mystery by John Watson 1916

The Maurice Mystery by John E Cooke 1885

Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Mystery writer) 1898

The Startling Exploits of Dr. J.B. Quies by Paul Celieres 1887 ("The world might fall into ruins around the Cafe de la Regence, where the chess-players congregate, and not one of them would seem to be aware of the occurrence.")

Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe 1846 ("A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.")

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Contents:

The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker (author of Dracula) 1902

The Bottom of the Sea by L Sonrel 1872

The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle 1912

The Ghost-Ship and other Stories by Richard Middleton 1912

The Phantom Ship by Captain Marryat 1896

How the Norway was Haunted, article in Ballou's monthly magazine 1892

I Saw Three Ships (Ghost Dragoon) by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1892

The Haunted Ships, article in The Flowers of Literature 1824

The Story of the Haunted Ship by Wilhelm Hauff 1890

Famous Mysteries: Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life that have Never Been Solved by John Elfreth Watkins 1919

The Ocean and its Mysteries by AH Verrill 1917

The Sea: its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril & Heroism by Frederick Whymper, Volume 1-2 1877

The Sea: its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril & Heroism by Frederick Whymper, Volume 3-4 1877

Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee 1883

Sea Monsters Unmasked by Henry Lee 1883

Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days by HN Hutchinson 1910

Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould 1886

Fish stories alleged and experienced, with a little history natural and unnatural by Charles F Holder 1909

Memorials of the sea by William Scoresby 1851

Myths and Legends of Japan by FH Davis 1912

Stories of the Sea by John R Spears 1893

Ghost of the Sea by TC Bridges 1908

Sailing Ships - the story of their development from the earliest times to the present day by EK Chatterton 1909

Tales of the Horrible (The Phantom Ship - Flying Dutchman) 1837

The Clipper Ship Era by Arthur H Clark 1910

Faery lands of the South seas 1921

The Lost Steamer - a history of the Amazon 1852

History of the General Slocum disaster by which nearly 1200 lives were lost by the burning of the steamer General Slocum in Hell gate, New York harbor, June 15,1904 by JS Ogilvie

The Norsemen in the West - America before Columbus by RM Ballantyne 1872

The Ghost World By Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (Sea Phantoms) 1893

Fictitious and symbolic creatures in art by John Vinycomb 1906

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Morris Jastrow, Albert Tobias Clay 1920 (contains what many believe to be the original flood account)

History of the Johnstown flood by Willis F Johnson 1889

The North Pole, the Great Ice Age, and the Deluge by William Brown Galloway 1900

Horrors of the Modern Deluge! Descriptive and illustrated review of the great floods of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers by Walter Raymond 1882

Weird Tales from Northern Seas by R Nisbet Bain 1893

Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen by William Jones 1880

Icelandic Legends by Jon Arnason 1864

Danish Fairy Legends and Tales by Hans Christian Anderson 1891

An Essay on the credibility of the existence of the Kraken and other Sea Serpents 1849

The Great Sea-Serpent - An Historical and Critical Treatise With the Reports of 187 Appearances by AC Oudemans 1892

The Sea Fairies by L Frank Baum 1911

The Sea Lady by HG Wells 1902

Stories of Greek Gods, Heroes and Men by Carolina C Harding (Poseidon God of the Sea, and Proteus the Old Man of the Sea) 1897

Astronomical Curiosities - Facts and Fallacies by J Ellard Gore 1909

Tales of Shipwreck and Peril at Sea 1858

A History of Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, from the Most Authentic Sources, Volume 1 by Cyrus Redding 1833

A History of Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, from the Most Authentic Sources, Volume 2 by Cyrus Redding 1833

Awful Calamities - The Shipwrecks of December 1839 (1840)

Interesting and Authentic Narratives of the Most Remarkable Shipwrecks by R Thomas 1847

The Wreck of the "Grosvenor" an account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas, Volume 1 by WC Russell 1877

The Wreck of the "Grosvenor" an account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas, Volume 2 by WC Russell 1877

The Wreck of the "Grosvenor" an account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas, Volume 3 by WC Russell 1877

Heroes of the Storm by William D O'Connor 1904

The Voyage of the Fleetwing by CM Newell 1886

Marine History 1877

Polynesian Mythology by Sir George Grey 1900

The Franklin Expedition by William Scoresby 1850

Celebrated Spies and Famous Mysteries of the Great War by George Barton 1919* ("THE saddest word in the maritime vocabulary is 'missing,' and yet it is the only term that can be applied to the strange case of Alfred Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American Consul-General to Rio Janeiro, Brazil, who so mysteriously disappeared with the captain, the crew and the United States naval collier, the Cyclops.")

Famous Ghost-Stories by English Authors (The Haunted Ships) 1920

Sea Wolves of the Mediterranean by E Hamilton Currey 1910

Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole 1890

The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort 1919 (gives detailed unsolved accounts of fish falling from the skies)

Sea and Land - an Illustrated History of the Wonderful and Curious Things of Nature existing before and since the Deluge by James Buel 1887

Plus You Get:

The Timaeus of Plato 1888 (the first mention of Atlantis was by Plato in this work written about 360 BC

The Swastika in Atlantis, article in The Word 1915

Atlantis, the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly 1882

Legendary Islands of the Atlantic by William Babcock 1922

Ragnarok: the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly 1883

Poseidon's Paradise, the romance of Atlantis by Elizabeth Birkmaier 1892

The Lost Atlantis and other Ethnographic Studies by Sir Daniel Wilson

Researches into the Lost Histories of America - The zodiac shown to be an old terrestrial map in which the Atlantic isle is delineated; so that light can be thrown upon the obscure histories of the earthworks and ruined cities of America by William Stephens Blackett 1884

Atlina, queen of the floating isle by MBM Toland 1892

Submerged Atlantis restored by Joseph B Leslie 1911

The Secret of Plato's Atlantis by Lord Arundell of Wardour 1885

The Secret of Plato's Atlantis - A Reply, article in The Dublin Review 1886

The Oera Linda Book from a manuscript of the 13th century by William Sandbach 1876 (this esoteric text mentions it under the name Atland. The book claims that it was submerged in 2193 BC)

The Oera Linda Book, article in The Cornhill Magazine 1876

Our Story of Atlantis written down for the Hermetic Brotherhood by WP Phelon 1903

A Bit of Atlantis by Douglas Erskine 1900

Beginnings or Glimpses of vanished civilizations by Marion Mulhall 1911

The History of Atlantis by Lewis Spence

The Lost Island Atlantis by Edward Fletcher 1889

The Lost Atlantis, article in The Kansas City review 1885

The Lost Continent Atlantis by WJ Colville 1884

The Submerged Continents of Atlantis and Lemuria by Rudolf Steiner 1911

Atla - a story of the Lost Island by Gregory Smith 1886

Preadamites - A demonstraiton of the existence of men before Adam by Alexander Winchell 1890

The Lost Lemuria BY W. Scott-Elliot 1904 (Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by modern understanding of plate tectonics. However, it has still been used as a location and inspiration in a wide range of novels, television shows, films and music.)

Atlantis, a Novel by G Hauptmann 1912

The myths of Plato by John Stewart 1905

The Scarlet Empire by David Parry 1906

Riddles of prehistoric times by James H Anderson 1911

The Mystery of Atlantis by SA Wildman 1878

Classical Authors and Atlantis, article in The theosophical path 1916

Ideal Commonwealths comprising More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the sun, and Harrington's Oceana 1901

The Successive Discoveries of America, article in The Dublin Review 1841

The Secret Doctrine By H.P. Blavatsky, Volume 1, 1893

The Secret Doctrine By H.P. Blavatsky, Volume 2, 1893

The Secret Doctrine By H.P. Blavatsky, Volume 3, 1893 (Blavatsky taught that the Atlanteans were great heroes)

A Dream of Atlantic, article in The Word 1909

The Romance of Navigation by Henry Frith 1893 (one page unreadable)

History of the Prehistoric Ages: Written by the Ancient Historic Band of Spirits by Leonard Herbert Nason 1880

A Dweller on Two Planets by Phylos 1920

Tales of the enchanted islands of the Atlantic by Thomas W Higginson 1898

Plus You Get:

Pirates by Charles Johnson 1922

Pirates and piracy by Oscar Herrmann 1902

Howard Pyle's book of Pirates - fiction, fact & fancy concerning the Buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main 1921

Buccaneers and pirates of our coasts by Frank Stockton 1898

Blackbeard, Buccaneer by Ralph Paine 1922

The Book of Buried Treasure; being a true history of the gold, jewels, and plate of Pirates, galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Paine 1922

The Pirate of Panama - a tale of the fight for buried treasure by Ralph Paine 1914

The Buccaneers and Marooners of America by Howard Pyle 1897

Lives and exploits of English highwaymen, Pirates, and Robbers by Charles Whitehead 1883

Daring deeds of Famous Pirates - True stories of the stirring adventures, bravery and resource of pirates, filibusters & buccaneers by E. Chatterton 1917

The History of the Lives and Bloody exploits of the most noted pirates - their trials and executions by Ezra Strong 1836

The Lives and daring deeds of the most celebrated Pirates and Buccaneers of all countries 1800

The History of Pirates, free-booters or buccaneers of America by JW Archenholz 1907

The History of the pirates, containing the lives of those noted pirate captains, Misson, Bowen, Kidd, Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy and their several crews by Thomas Carey 1834

Captain William Kidd and others of the pirates or buccaneers who ravaged the seas, the islands, and the continents of America two hundred years ago by John Abbott 1874

The pirates of Panama - The buccaneers of America, a true account of the famous adventures and daring deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and other notorious freebooters of the Spanish Main 1914 by A.O. Exquemelin

The Voyages and Adventures of Edward Teach, commonly called Black Beard, the notorious Pirate by S Wilkinson 1805

The real Captain Kidd - A Vindication by Cornelius Neale Dalton 1911

New-England legends by Harriet Spofford 1871

The buccaneers of America by A.O. Exquemelin 1914

Kate Bonnet - the romance of a Pirate's daughter by Frank Stockton 1914

Sea-wolves of seven shores by Jessie Peabody Frothingham 1904

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 1911

Great pirate stories by Joseph Lewis French 1922

The Monarchs of the Main by Walter Thornbury 1861

Sea and Sail - Marvelous adventures on the Ocean 1876

The Pirate of the Mediterranean by  W.H.G. Kingston 1851

Tunisia and the modern Barbary Pirates by Herbert Vivian 1899

The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll 1908

Stories of the Spanish Main by Frank Stockton

Pirate Gold by FJ Stimson 1896

Some Famous Pirates, article in the National Review 1891

Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors by Fletcher Barrett 1885

Tales of Shipwrecks and other Disasters at Sea by Thomas Bingley 1850

Memorable Shipwrecks and Seafaring Adventures of the 19th century by JF Layson 1907

Remarkable Voyages and Shipwrecks - being a popular collection of extraordinary and authentic Sea Narratives relating to all parts of the globe by GW Barrington 1888

Lafitte of Louisiana by Mary Devereux 1902

THE PIRATES OWN BOOK - Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers by Charles Ellms 1837

The Sea's Anthology from the earliest times down to the middle of the 19th century by JE Patterson 1913

Why Treasure Island, article in English journal By National Council of Teachers of English 1920

15 Men on a Dead Mans Chest, the complete text of the song in Yachting magazine 1914

The Corsair King by Mor Jokai 1901

The Jolly Roger, article in Blackwood's magazine 1921

Some Eminent Pirates, article in The Gentleman's magazine 1921

In the Wake of Captain Kidd, article in The Rudder Magazine 1909

Remarkable Shipwrecks - A collection of interesting accounts of naval disasters 1813 (poor quality book)

Plus You Get:


Harold Bride's Story of the Sinking of the Titanic, article in Writing of today: models of journalistic prose, selected and discussed 1915

Sixteen Boats and a Quiet Sea, several articles in The Outlook 1912

Telling the Tale of the Titanic, several articles in The Independent 1912

The Greatest of Marine Disasters, article in Engineering News 1912

What the Wireless Told (Titanic), article in Popular Electricity and the World's Advance 1912

The Tragedy of the Titanic and its Lesson, article in The American review of reviews 1912

Some of the Legal Aspects of the Titanic Disaster, article in Bench and Bar 1913

Problems Growing out of the Titanic Disasster, article in The American Mercantile Marine 1915

Titanic Tribute to the Deep, article in Machinists' monthly journal 1912

Notes on Life and Letters By Joseph Conrad 1921 (SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC)

British Resentment of our Titanic Inquiry, a series of articles in Current Opinion 1912

On Safety of Life at Sea, article in The Edinburgh Review 1912

Plus You Get:

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe 1838
"Another eerie coincidence: One scene in this fictional book visits a whaling ship lost at sea, taking with it all but 4 crewmen. Out of food, the men drew lots to see who would be eaten, the unfortunate decision landing on a young cabin boy named Richard Parker (and here it gets really weird)....46 years later there was an actual disaster at sea involving the Mignonette wherein the men drew lots and decided to eat their cabin boy...a boy named Richard Parker."

Mysteries of the Sea by John Spears (Flying Dutchman, Mary Celeste, article in Munsey's magazine 1905)

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste, article in The Overland Monthly 1906 (The Mary Celeste was an American brigantine merchant ship famous for having been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned, despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen. The Mary Celeste was in seaworthy condition and still under sail heading toward the Strait of Gibraltar. She had been at sea for a month and had over six months' worth of food and water on board. Her cargo was virtually untouched and the personal belongings of passengers and crew were still in place, including valuables. The crew was never seen or heard from again. Their disappearance is often cited as the greatest maritime mystery of all time.)

The Captain of the Polestar (fictional work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle where Doyle gives his version of what happened on the Mary Celeste) 1912

The Mystery of the Marie Celeste, article in Yachting magazine 1914

The Case of the Mary Celeste, article in Chambers's journal 1904

Famous Mysteries - Curious and Fantastic Riddles of Human Life by John E Watkins 1919 (Mysteries of the Sea, Mary Celeste)

The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland, an authentic account of the most horrible disaster in Canadian history constructed from the real facts obtained from those on board who survived and other great sea disasters by Logan Marshall 1914 (1012 lives lost)

Tales of Shipwrecks and other Disasters at Sea by Thomas Bingley 1850

Memorable Shipwrecks and Seafaring Adventures of the 19th century by JF Layson 1907

Remarkable Voyages and Shipwrecks - being a popular collection of extraordinary and authentic Sea Narratives relating to all parts of the globe by GW Barrington 1888

Remarkable Shipwrecks - A collection of interesting accounts of naval disasters 1813 (poor quality book)

The Lusitania's Last Voyage by Charles Lauriat 1915

The Grave of the Lusitania by HI Phillips 1918

The Tragedy of the Lusitania by F Ellis 1915

The "Lusitania" Case by Albert Henschel 1915

The Death Ship, a Strange Story - an Account of a Cruise in The Flying Dutchman, by William Clark Russell 1888

The Phantom Ship by Captain Marryat 1839

The Ghost Ship and other Stories by Richard Middleton 1913

Phantoms of the Deep - Legends and superstitions of the sea and of sailors 1903

Legends and Superstitions of the sea and of sailors by F Bassett 1885

The Mystery of the "Ocean Star" by William Clark Russell 1888

The Mystery of the USS Cyclops, article in Santa Fe Magazine 1920

Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors. History of a disaster where over one thousand five hundred human beings were lost, most of them being exchanged prisoners of war on their way home, by Chester Berry 1892

The Mariner's Chronicle, containing narratives of the most Remarkable Disasters at sea, such as Shipwrecks, storms, Fires, and Famines by A Duncan 1834

Lost Ships and Lonely Seas by Ralph Paine 1921

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy - a weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster by New York : Hurst & Co. 1800's

The Book of Buried Treasure - being a true history of the Gold, Jewels, and plate of Pirates, Galleons, which are sought for to this day by Ralph Paine 1922

Ancient and Modern Ships by George Holmes 1906 part 1

Ancient Ships by Cecil Tor 1895