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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Preface
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Pretended Death, Part 1
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Pretended Death, Part 2: Forged Certification
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Pretended Death, Part 3: False Personation of Applicant
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Pretended Death, Part 4: Fictitious Substitution
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Pretended Death, Part 5
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Speculative Insurance: Part 1: Gambling
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Speculative Insurance, Part 2: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic
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Speculative Insurance, Part 3: The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic, cont'd
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Speculative Insurance, Part 4: The Belfast Scandal
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Speculative Insurance, Part 5: The Blackburn Gamblers
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 1: Inferences and Presumptions of Death
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 2
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 3
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 4: A Savannah River Case
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 5: Charles and Martha
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 6
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 7
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 8
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 9: Monotonous Reptition of the Drowning Trick
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 10: A Welsh Deserter
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 11: The Burning in Place of the Drowning Trick
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 12: The Mariano Rubio Case
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Mysterious Disappearances, Part 13: The Hillmon Concealment
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Homicide, Part 1: Poisoning and More Violent Forms of Assassination
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Homicide, Part 2: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 1
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Homicide, Part 3: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 2
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Homicide, Part 4: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 3
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Homicide, Part 5: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 4
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Homicide, Part 6: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 5
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Homicide, Part 7: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 6
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Homicide, Part 8: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 7
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Homicide, Part 9: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 8
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Homicide, Part 10: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 9
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Homicide, Part 11: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 10
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Homicide, Part 12: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 11
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Homicide, Part 13: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 12
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Homicide, Part 14: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 13
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Homicide, Part 15: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 14
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Homicide, Part 16: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 15
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Homicide, Part 17: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 16
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Homicide, Part 18: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 17
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Homicide, Part 19: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 18
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Homicide, Part 20: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 19
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Homicide, Part 21: The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy, part 20
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Homicide, Part 22: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 1
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Homicide, Part 23: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 2
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Homicide, Part 24: Angie Stewart, the Murdered Child, part 3
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Homicide, Part 25: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 1
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Homicide, Part 26: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 2
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Homicide, Part 27: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 3
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Homicide, Part 28: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 4
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Homicide, Part 29: The Brantley-Eskridge Romance, part 5
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Homicide, Part 30: The Hunter-Armstrong Tragedy
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Homicide, Part 31: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 1
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Homicide, Part 32: Meyer, with Many Aliases, part 2
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Homicide, Part 33: The Hendryx Case
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Homicide, Part 34: The Professor West Infamy
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Homicide, Part 35: The Wichita Outlaws, Winner and McNutt; Count Pommerais and Madame Pauw
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Homicide, Part 36: The Hartung Crime
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Homicide, Part 37: Katherine Ging, the Dupe and Victim of Harry Hayward
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Homicide, Part 38: The Monster Holmes, part 1
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Homicide, Part 39: The Monster Holmes, part 2
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Homicide, Part 40: A Dramatic California Incident
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Homicide, Part 41: A French Wife Destroyer; An Austrian Triple Wife Murder; A Sensational Poisoning Case in Prussia
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Female Poisoners, Part 1: The Belgian Poisoner, Madame Joniaux
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Female Poisoners, Part 2: A Famous Kansas Matricide
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Female Poisoners, Part 3
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Female Poisoners, Part 4
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Suicide, Part 1
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Suicide, Part 2: Colvocoresses, part 1
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Suicide, Part 3: Colvocoresses, part 2
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Suicide, Part 4: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 1
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Suicide, Part 5: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 2
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Suicide, Part 6: The Monroe Snyder Case, part 3
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Suicide, Part 7: Jacob C. Wallis, part 1
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Suicide, Part 8: Jacob C. Wallis, part 2
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Suicide, Part 9: A Hungarian Nobleman's Strategem; The Runk Case in Philadelphia, part 1
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Suicide, Part 10: The Runk Case in Philadelphia, part 2
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Problematical Cases, Part 1: Walton Dwight, part 1
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Problematical Cases, Part 2: Walton Dwight, part 2
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Problematical Cases, Part 3: Walton Dwight, part 3
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Problematical Cases, Part 4: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 1
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Problematical Cases, Part 5: The Ardlamont Mystery, part 2
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Problematical Cases, Part 6: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 1
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Problematical Cases, Part 7: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 2
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Problematical Cases, Part 8: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 3
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Problematical Cases, Part 9: The Wackerle Puzzle, part 4
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Problematical Cases, Part 10: The Maybrick Case
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Problematical Cases, Part 11: The Austin Disappearance
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Problematical Cases, Part 12: A Question of Identity; Mistaken Identity
