DISAPPEARANCES True Accounts of Canadians Who Have Vanished

Hardback. All missing persons mysteries require prompt investigation. A life may be at stake, a killer at large. But some disappearances are reported too late, some in vain, and some not at all. Months may pass before a horrifying tale of violence or fury is uncovered; other disappearances remain unsolved. This is a collection of engrossing mysteries reconstructed with chilling precision. A woman's own freezer becomes her coffin in which she lies preserved along with peas and ice cream...a young girl is imprisoned for months in a basement, kept alive on a ration of chocolate...three legs are identified as belonging to the same man. Some demonstrate the phenomenon, fascinating while repelling, of a mind that has suddenly flipped its moral constraints. Others tell of inherent evil, no less dreadful. Still others defy all explanation. But whatever the subject of the author's far-ranging inquiries, each dark riddle is related with flair, marked by excitement, and charged with perceptions of the dangers surrounding the commonplace. Illus. 204pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ in Vg+ pcdw.