Nicks` Cabinet of Curios

  Leonard Gribble - Famous Mysteries of Modern Times - Muller - 1976 This followed the same authors` Famous Historical Mysteries and More Famous Historical Mysteries (both of which I have, but have not read yet), and was intended as a supplement to the m.  I did wonder if this might mean it was hastily cobbled together in order to cash in on the success of its` predecessors, but this does not seem to be the case.  I would query whether all of the cases discussed here really qualify as `mysteries`, but let`s not worry too much about that. Generally, the book is an absorbing read and does feature a number of intriguing mysteries, some of which were new to me despite my long-standing fondness for such things.  There were some points where I felt like the book could have been edited more thoroughly (did the author really intend to say that the inhabitants of Kirkwall were "understandably inbred" ?), but this is not a huge problem overall.  Recommended reading, but n...