No Case To Answer is a major advance in dealing with two of the chief "monsters" of the Kennedy assassination. Ian Griggs' research enumerates a variety of long-standing myths in regard to events, evidence and people, resolving numerous issues in a clear and concise manner. Beyond that, however, Ian's professional experience surfaces and he exposes many of the key issues of evidence as well as methods which should have been addressed decades ago as part of a real criminal investigation of the assassination.

Larry Hancock, author of "Someone Would Have Talked"

His beat work, operational detective experience and fine investigative sense are all demonstrated in his examination of the Oswald line-ups, the non-existent paper sack, and his assembling of a duplicate of the alleged assassination weapon, eliminating any possibility that the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was involved in the JFK assassination. It took an English detective to expose the complicity of Dallas police in the death of JFK!

Professor Emeritus George Michael Evica, author of "And We Are All Mortal"

Jim Spencer

I just finished reading your book "No Case to Answer" and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your writing style and the high percentage of new material or analysis that I hadn't seen before, even though I collect books related to the assassination and have literally read hundreds of books. Many thanks to you, Debra Conway and your peer reviewers for a superb job.

"Dealey Plaza Echo", January 2006

The book opens with a prologue which looks at the structure and organization of the Dallas Police Department in November 1963. Part One features 4 chapters discussing the experiences of three key witnesses - Bill Newman, Beverly Oliver and Ed Hoffman. Part Two has four articles about lesser-known witnesses - Samuel Paternostro, Ronald Fischer and Robert Edwards, Johnny Calvin Brewer, and a number of British women who have a small part in the story. Part Three looks at various subterfuges used to pin the crime on Oswald, and Ian's quest to find out information on Oswald's time in Finland. Part Four deals with manufactured evidence. This has some of the most important articles in the book, including on the rifle and Ian's celebrated "The paper bag that never was", a title Conan Doyle would have been proud to use. Part Five focuses on Jack Ruby, the Carousel Club and strippers such as Shari Angel and Kathy Kay.

Part Six looks further a field at reactions to the assassination in the press, and cites some documents located in the British Public Records Office. But perhaps its most significant pages are Ian's 23rd chapter, titled "Kill That Myth!" This should be required reading for everyone thinking of publishing anything about 22.11.63. One of the besetting problems of assassination research is the uncontrolled accumulation of theory and myth, which confuses the subject, is apt to mislead people, and discourages others from wanting to risk their sanity by venturing into such a jungle of half-light and half-truth. For example, if all the people who are supposed to have fired a gun in Dealey Plaza had actually been present there would hardly have been elbow-room along the entire length of the picket fence! If you made a list of these names it is clear that a high percentage of them must be not guilty, on the grounds that most researchers haven't suggested there were more than three shooters (or teams) at most. What researchers need to do is to eliminate suspects (and theories) from the enquiry wherever possible, and to do so in a cool, thoughtful manner. This is almost as important a task as seeking new evidence. The quest for the truth must also be a quest for clarity, as Ian's short piece demonstrates.

The book has three sections of photographs and illustrations. Readers of the Echo will want a copy of this on their shelves. I am sure we would all wish to congratulate Ian on the publication of his book.