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Authors: Edward Jay Epstein
Chapter 5: The Anthrax Attack on America
David Willman,
The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America’s Rush to War
(2011), Bantam Books, New York
Chapter 6: The Pope’s Assassin
Paul B. Henze,
The Plot to Kill the Pope
(1983), Scribner, New York
Chapter 7: The Mayerling Incident
Frederic Morton,
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888–1889
(1979), Little Brown Company, Boston
Chapter 8: Who Killed God’s Banker?
Charles Raw,
The Money Changers: How the Vatican Bank Enabled Roberto Calvi to Steal 250 Million for the Heads of the P2 Masonic Lodge
(1992), Harvill, London
Chapter 9: The Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
A. Susan Williams,
Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa
(2011), Columbia University Press, New York
Chapter 10: The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe
Anthony Summers,
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
(1985), Macmillan, New York
Chapter 11: The Crash of Enrico Mattei
Nico Perrone,
Enrico Mattei
(2001), Mulino, Bologna, Italy
Chapter 12: The Disappearance of Lin Biao
Ming-le Yao,
The Conspiracy and Death of Lin Biao
(1983), Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Chapter 13: The Elimination of General Zia
George Crile,
Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
(2003), Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
Chapter 14: The Submerged Spy
Jim Hougan,
Secret Agenda
(1984), Ballantine Books, New York
Chapter 15: Jack the Ripper
Paul Begg and John Bennett,
Jack the Ripper: CSI, Whitechapel
(2012), Andre Deutsch, London
Chapter 16: The Harry Oakes Murder
John Marquis,
Blood and Fire: The Duke of Windsor and the Strange Murder of Sir Harry Oakes
(2005), LMH Publishing Company, Kingston, Jamaica
Chapter 17: The Black Dahlia
Steve Hodel,
Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story
(2003), Arcade Publishing, New York
Chapter 18: The Pursuit of Dr. Sam Sheppard
James Neff,
The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case
(2001), Random House, New York
Chapter 19: The Killing of JonBenet Ramsey
Lawrence Schiller,
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder
(1999), HarperCollins, New York
Chapter 20: The Zodiac
Robert Greysmith,
Zodiac Unmasked
:
The Identity of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed
(2002), Berkley, New York
Chapter 21: The Vanishing of Jimmy Hoffa
Arthur A. Sloane,
Hoffa
(1991), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Chapter 22: Death in Ukraine: The Case of the Headless Journalist
The International Federation of Journalists,
The Gongadze Inquiry: A Preliminary Investigation
(2005), International Federation of Journalists, Brussels, Belgium
Chapter 23: The Dubai Hit
Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal,
Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
(2012), Ecco, New York
Chapter 24: The Beirut Assassination
Nicholas Blanford,
Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East
(2006), I.B. Tauris, London
Chapter 25: Who Assassinated Anna Politkovskaya?
Anna Politkovskaya,
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches
(2011), Melville House, Brooklyn, New York
Chapter 26: Blowing Up Bhutto
James P. Farwell,
The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability
(2011), Potomac Books, Washington, D.C.
Chapter 27: The Case of the Radioactive Corpse
Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley,
Londongrad: From Russia With Cash
(2009), Fourth Estate, London
Chapter 28: The Godfather Contract
Alexander Stille,
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
(1995), Pantheon, New York
Chapter 29: The Vanishings
Yoshi Yamamoto,
Taken! North Korea’s Criminal Abductions of Citizens of Other Countries
(2011), Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Washington, D.C.
Chapter 30: The Oklahoma City Bombing
Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles,
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters
(2012), William Morrow, New York
Chapter 31: The O. J. Simpson Nullification
Vincent Bugliosi,
Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
(1996), W.W. Norton & Company, New York
Chapter 32: Bringing Down DSK
Didier Hassoux, Christophe Labbé, and Olivia Recasens,
L’Espion du President
(2012), Robert Laffont, Paris, France
Chapter 33: The MacDonald Massacre
Errol Morris,
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
(2012), Penguin, New York
Chapter 34: The Knox Ordeal
John Follain,
A Death in Italy: The Definitive Account of the Amanda Knox Case
(2012), St. Martin’s Press, New York
Epilogue: The Enduring Mystery of the JFK Assassination
Gus Russo and Stephen Molton,
Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder
(2008), Bloomsbury USA, New York
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am deeply grateful to those who assisted my investigation of these unsolved crimes. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Renata Adler, Natalie Altshuler, Robert Asahina, Richard Bernstein, Sidney Blumenthal, Svetlana Chervonnaya, Bob Coen, Carlo Calvi, Howard Dickman, Andrea DiRobilant, Chuck Downs, Susana Duncan, Harold Edgar, Ben Gerson, Andrew Hacker, Stuart Jacobson, Haroon Khan, Humayan Khan, Billy Kimball, Jules Kroll, Jim Hougan, Grant Manheim, Zhores Medvedev, Fred Miller, Eric Nadler, Jeff Paul, Magui Nougue-Sans, Mario Platero, Seth Roberts, Fabrice Rousselot, John Rubenstein, Gus Russo, Ko Shioya, and Robert Silvers.
Finally, I want to thank my editor Kelly Burdick at Melville House. The book benefitted enormously from his thoughtful suggestions and brilliant editing.
Parts of this book were adapted from reporting that I did for
Vanity Fair
,
The New York Sun
,
The Wall Street Journal
, and
The New York Review of Books
.
A portion of Chapter XIII, “The Elimination of General Zia,” is taken from an article I wrote for
Vanity Fair
(September 1989); a portion of Chapter XXVII, “The Case of the Radioactive Corpse,” is taken from an article that appeared in the
New York Sun
(March 19, 2008); portions of Chapter XXIII, “The Dubai Hit,” and Chapter XXIV, “The Beirut Assassination,” are taken from articles I wrote for the
Wall Street Journal
(March 27, 2010 and November 26, 2010). A portion of Chapter XXXII, “Bringing Down DSK,” appeared in
The New York Review of Books
(December 22, 2011), which was later expanded as
Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK
, published as an ebook in April 2012.