Table of Contents
Foreword Gregory A. Feith vii
1 Woman of Mystery, Woman of Contradictions 1
2 Origins 4
3 Enter George Palmer Putnam 9
4 Celebrity 13
5 Marriage 16
6 Hawaii to California 19
7 Flight around the World: Preparation 22
8 Trouble with Japan 26
9 Enter Robert Myers 28
10 Oakland to Honolulu 30
11 The Crash 33
12 A Visit from Washington 36
13 Repairs 38
14 Fred Noonan 44
15 Reenter Putnam 47
16 Flight around the World: Second Attempt 49
17 Final Preparations 58
18 From New Guinea to the Rising Sun 61
19 Flight Questions 67
20 The Mystery of Howland Island 69
21 The Flight Path 73
22 What Happened to Amelia Earhart? 77
23 Downed at Mili Atoll 83
24 The Search 90
25 The Mystery of the Itasca Logs 93
26 On to Saipan 95
27 The Mystery Letter 100
28 Death or Transfer? 102
29 The Mystery of Wilbur Rothar 105
30 Tokyo Rose 110
31 The Mystery of the Morgenthau Memo 112
32 The Mystery at Aslito Airfield 120
33 The Mystery of James V. Forrestal 125
34 The Electra Mystery 128
35 Imprisonment 130
36 Repatriation 133
37 Enter Irene Craigmile Bolam 137
38 Enter William Van Dusen 142
39 Reenter Irene Craigmile Bolam 144
40 Postrepatriation 151
41 Reenter William Van Dusen 154
42 The Evidence 156
43 Analysis 167
Selected Bibliography 173
About the Author 175
