This collection presents 24 essays, each of them based on historical evidence, about different events, strange and sometimes unbelievable:
The Disappearance of Bathurst
The Duchess of Kingston
General Mallet
Schweinichen's Memoirs
The Locksmith Gamain
Abram the Usurer
Sophie Apitzsch
Peter Nielsen
The Wonder-Working Prince Hohenlohe
The Snail-Telegraph
The Countess Goerlitz
A Wax-and-Honey Moon
The Electress's Plot
Suess Oppenheim
Ignatius Fessler
A Swiss Passion Play
A Northern Raphael
The Poisoned Parsnips
The Murder of Father Thomas in Damascus
Some Accusations Against Jews
The Coburg Mausoleum
Jean Aymon
The Patarines of Milan
The Anabaptists of Münster
The Disappearance of Bathurst
The Duchess of Kingston
General Mallet
Schweinichen's Memoirs
The Locksmith Gamain
Abram the Usurer
Sophie Apitzsch
Peter Nielsen
The Wonder-Working Prince Hohenlohe
The Snail-Telegraph
The Countess Goerlitz
A Wax-and-Honey Moon
The Electress's Plot
Suess Oppenheim
Ignatius Fessler
A Swiss Passion Play
A Northern Raphael
The Poisoned Parsnips
The Murder of Father Thomas in Damascus
Some Accusations Against Jews
The Coburg Mausoleum
Jean Aymon
The Patarines of Milan
The Anabaptists of Münster