CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[A Note on Disappearing][xi]
I.[The Charlie Ross Enigma][1]
II.[“Severed from the Race”][23]
III.[The Vanished Archduke][40]
IV.[The Stolen Conway Boy][65]
V.[The Lost Heir of Tichborne][82]
VI.[The Kidnappers of Central Park][101]
VII.[Dorothy Arnold][120]
VIII.[Eddie Cudahy and Pat Crowe][133]
IX.[The Whitla Kidnapping][153]
X.[The Mystery at Highbridge][171]
XI.[A Nun in Vivisepulture][187]
XII.[The Return of Jimmie Glass][203]
XIII.[The Fates and Joe Varotta][219]
XIV.[The Lost Millionaire][237]
XV.[The Ambrose Bierce Irony][257]
XVI.[The Adventure of the Century][273]
XVII.[Spectral Ships][292]
[Bibliography][313]