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Annals Of Unsolved Crime (2013)

by Edward Jay Epstein(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1299564984 (ISBN13: 9781299564985)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Melville House Publishing

review 1: This book was incredibly informative! I've read my fair share about the more popular of the unsolved crimes - JonBenet Ramsey, the Black Dahlia, Jack the Ripper - but I found the section on state crimes the most interesting. The lengths some of them went to to create cover-ups, or even just frame other international agencies is remarkable. And terrifying. Absolutely terrifying.This book is incredibly well-researched, which is always something I look out for when reading true crime. The author is also not afraid to flat out admit when he just doesn't have a bloody clue what happened. Try as he might to piece the available evidence together, sometimes you just have to admit when you're stumped.It was great to read about cases I'd never even heard of - which is often why I en... morejoy these types of anthologies. Reading about these cases also made me much more aware of the goings on in international relations, which have always fascinated me.This book has given me my fair share of homework to do in order to gain a complete understanding of some of these cases. Homework I am more than happy to do!! I will definitely be seeking out more from this author. I liked his style, and I especially enjoyed how he presented his information.
review 2: A fast, easy read ... although the writing must not have been either fast or easy (much research was needed; and the author summarized succinctly - I thought - vast amounts of data, which must have taken some effort [often harder to cut words than to add words]). His conclusions about each case seemed (to me at least) well reasoned, although with many cases - as he himself points out - nobody can ever know for sure. Of course readers predisposed with their own theories will probably reject the author's conclusions out of hand if they are different from their own. I learned a lot about a many of the cases (the newspapers really do a lousy job of reporting). I also found disheartening (but not too surprising) the role of various governments in some of these crimes (and cover-ups). For a few cases he does go into lengthy detail before summarizing ... but it seems unavoidable in those cases (e.g. 'God's Banker' and the radioactive Russian case [Litvinenko]). less

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