A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples.
The present . . . volume is . . . commended as a trustworthy record to those for whose use and reference it is primarily intended—life insurance companies and agents, medical examiners, insurance lawyers, and medico-legal experts. . . . [It] is not confined to the exposure of the cunning contrivances and artifices of this class of schemers and plotters; it includes picturesque views of detection and punishment; of the determined efforts of the companies, at whatever cost, to run them down; of the machinery of courts of justice; of the gloom of the prison cell; of the dark outlines of the scaffold. The cases in this book are for the most part more suggestive or instructive to detective agencies than to conspirators. . . . These narratives also show that no community has a monopoly of the piratical adventurers who thus prey upon beneficent institutions. They are of all nationalities as well as of both sexes, and everywhere alike "to no code or creed confined." - Summary by TriciaG and from the Preface
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PrefacePretended Death, Part 1Pretended Death, Part 2: Forged CertificationPretended Death, Part 3: False Personation of ApplicantPretended Death, Part 4: Fictitious SubstitutionPretended Death, Part 5Speculative Insurance: Part 1: GamblingSpeculative Insurance, Part 2: The Pennsylvania Graveyard EpidemicSpeculative Insurance, Part 3: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic, cont'dSpeculative Insurance, Part 4: The Belfast ScandalSpeculative Insurance, Part 5: The Blackburn GamblersMysterious Disappearances, Part 1: Inferences and Presumptions of DeathMysterious Disappearances, Part 2Mysterious Disappearances, Part 3Mysterious Disappearances, Part 4: A Savannah River CaseMysterious Disappearances, Part 5: Charles and MarthaMysterious Disappearances, Part 6Mysterious Disappearances, Part 7Mysterious Disappearances, Part 8Mysterious Disappearances, Part 9: Monotonous Reptition of the Drowning TrickMysterious Disappearances, Part 10: A Welsh DeserterMysterious Disappearances, Part 11: The Burning in Place of the Drowning TrickMysterious Disappearances, Part 12: The Mariano Rubio CaseMysterious Disappearances, Part 13: The Hillmon ConcealmentHomicide, Part 1: Poisoning and More Violent Forms of AssassinationHomicide, Part 2: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 1Homicide, Part 3: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 2Homicide, Part 4: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 3Homicide, Part 5: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 4Homicide, Part 6: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 5Homicide, Part 7: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 6Homicide, Part 8: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 7Homicide, Part 9: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 8Homicide, Part 10: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 9Homicide, Part 11: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 10Homicide, Part 12: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 11Homicide, Part 13: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 12Homicide, Part 14: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 13Homicide, Part 15: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 14Homicide, Part 16: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 15Homicide, Part 17: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 16Homicide, Part 18: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 17Homicide, Part 19: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 18Homicide, Part 20: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 19Homicide, Part 21: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 20Homicide, Part 22: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 1Homicide, Part 23: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 2Homicide, Part 24: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 3Homicide, Part 25: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 1Homicide, Part 26: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 2Homicide, Part 27: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 3Homicide, Part 28: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 4Homicide, Part 29: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 5Homicide, Part 30: The Hunter-Armstrong TragedyHomicide, Part 31: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 1Homicide, Part 32: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 2Homicide, Part 33: The Hendryx CaseHomicide, Part 34: The Professor West InfamyHomicide, Part 35: The Wichita Outlaws, Winner and McNutt; Count Pommerais and Madame PauwHomicide, Part 36: The Hartung CrimeHomicide, Part 37: Katherine Ging, the Dupe and Victim of Harry HaywardHomicide, Part 38: The Monster Holmes, part 1Homicide, Part 39: The Monster Holmes, part 2Homicide, Part 40: A Dramatic California IncidentHomicide, Part 41: A French Wife Destroyer; An Austrian Triple Wife Murder; A Sensational Poisoning Case in PrussiaFemale Poisoners, Part 1: The Belgian Poisoner, Madame JoniauxFemale Poisoners, Part 2: A Famous Kansas MatricideFemale Poisoners, Part 3Female Poisoners, Part 4Suicide, Part 1Suicide, Part 2: Colvocoresses, part 1Suicide, Part 3: Colvocoresses, part 2Suicide, Part 4: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 1Suicide, Part 5: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 2Suicide, Part 6: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 3Suicide, Part 7: Jacob C. Wallis, part 1Suicide, Part 8: Jacob C. Wallis, part 2Suicide, Part 9: A Hungarian Nobleman's Strategem; The Runk Case in Philadelphia, part 1Suicide, Part 10: The Runk Case in Philadelphia, part 2Problematical Cases, Part 1: Walton Dwight, part 1Problematical Cases, Part 2: Walton Dwight, part 2Problematical Cases, Part 3: Walton Dwight, part 3Problematical Cases, Part 4: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 1Problematical Cases, Part 5: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 2Problematical Cases, Part 6: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 1Problematical Cases, Part 7: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 2Problematical Cases, Part 8: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 3Problematical Cases, Part 9: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 4Problematical Cases, Part 10: The Maybrick CaseProblematical Cases, Part 11: The Austin DisappearanceProblematical Cases, Part 12: A Question of Identity; Mistaken IdentitySelf-Mutilation in Accident Insurance, Part 1Self-Mutilation in Accident Insurance, Part 2
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