Is truth stranger than fiction? Does art imitate life? Who can say for sure. Of one thing we are certain, some of the deepest, most puzzling mysteries are not the ones that are spawned by a writer's imagination, for the truly inexplicable and insoluble, consult the police records of any large or small city. For instance, the McKibben case. Clarence McKibben was murdered, or he was kidnapped, or did he simply disappear? Take your pick. He was last seen by his wife on his farm, on July 4th 1899, some twenty miles from Detroit Michigan, and to this day, nobody knows what happened to him, or why. It's a classic amongst unsolved mysteries.