Leslie Reade,

The Ship That Stood Still (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993). The case against Captain Lord .

Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat,

The Riddle of the Titanic (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995). The central mystery of the

Titanic

saga, according to Gardiner and van der Vat, is why Captain Smith, who knew there was ice ahead, continued at high speed. The book pursues a conspiracy theory that the White Star Line hoped to sink the ship (which was actually not the

Titanic

but her sister and near twin, the

Olympic ) as part of an insurance scam. After tantalizing readers with the evidence supporting the theory, Gardiner and van der Vat ultimately (and reasonably) reject it as highly improbable .

Daniel Butler, “Unsinkable” (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998). A straightforward retelling of the

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