The Folio Book of Historical Mysteries

This anthology presents essays on unresolved or disputed episodes in the past, each by a historian weighing evidence rather than inventing a solution. Typical subjects include who built a prehistoric monument, whether a famous death was murder, why a city or empire fell, what happened to missing persons or ships, and how a legend such as a vanished town of children relates to a record. Cases range from antiquity to the twentieth century. There is no shared plot. The book is a set of historical inquiries, not a volume of detective fiction and not a single author's continuous history.

Bound in black cloth cover blocked with a silver design. Grey endpapers. Black slipcase with a pictorial front.