Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-338) and index.

"Loners" : but were they alone? The assassination of President Lincoln ; The Reichstag fire ; The Lindbergh kidnapping ; The assassination of Olof Palme ; The anthrax attack on America ; The Pope's assassin -- Suicide, accident, or disguised murder? The Mayerling incident ; Who killed God's banker? ; The death of Dag Hammarskjöld ; The strange death of Marilyn Monroe ; The crash of Enrico Mattei ; The disappearance of Lin Biao ; The elimination of General Zia ; The submerged spy -- Cold case file. Jack the Ripper ; The Harry Oakes murder ; The Black Dahlia ; The pursuit of Dr. Sam Sheppard ; The killing of JonBenet Ramsey ; The Zodiac ; The vanishing of Jimmy Hoffa -- Crimes of state. Death in Ukraine : the case of the headless journalist ; The Dubai hit ; The Beirut assassination ; Who assassinated Anna Politkovskaya? ; Blowing up Bhutto ; The case of the radioactive corpse ; The godfather contract ; The vanishings -- Solved or unsolved? The Oklahoma City bombing ; The O.J. Simpson nullification ; Bringing down DSK ; The MacDonald massacre ; The Knox ordeal -- The enduring mystery of the JFK assassination.