Sarah's Marathon Diary: Between The Moon And New York City

[Primetimer]

In Search Of... on volcanoes, werewolves, and the Lindbergh kidnapping.

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[Naga]

Yes, please re recommended reading on the Lindbergh case. What do you consider the best resource?

[Sarah D. Bunting]

I would start with John Douglas's "The Cases That Haunt Us," which is also excellent on Jack the Ripper, Laurie Bembenek, the Black Dahlia, and others. Then Jim Fisher's books, although "The Ghosts of Hopewell" was a bit of a slog in my opinion.

I've just taken delivery of the TV movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Hauptmann so I'll report back if that's worthwhile (spoiler: reeeeeally doubt it).

("The Case That Never Dies," by Gardner, is also good. Haven't read the Falzini yet.)

[Ursula Parrott]

Hauptmann's Ladder by Richard Cahill is really good and recent. GeorgeWaller's Kidnap is the granddaddy of all the books on the case. And Scaduto's an asshatted crank imo.