Historical Mysteries
In 1753, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Canning vanished from her London home for twenty-eight days, then reappeared at her mother's door in a state of terror, half-starved, her clothes torn. What followed was one of the most sensational legal battles of the eighteenth century, dividing the nation and exposing the fragile architecture of truth, perception, and justice. Andrew Lang, the celebrated collector of fairy tales and inveterate skeptic of the paranormal, turns his formidable analytical mind to this and other historical enigmas, dissecting the evidence with Victorian precision. This is not true crime as we know it, but rather a period piece of detective work, where Lang asks whether the accepted version of events actually holds up. The book works as both a chronicle of fascinating cold cases and a meditation on how history gets constructed, how witnesses deceive, and how the past resists our need to pin it down.
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