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Machen makes no bones about his opinion: "Elizabeth Canning was an infernal liar." Of the books that I have read, Machen does the best job of carefully examining the evidence and testimony offered at various times. He throws out possibilities of what EC might actually have been up to, but emphasizes that we will never really know. Machen's habit of interlacing quotations from testimony, Britishism, and allusions that may have been more obvious in the 1920s occasionally makes the book a little difficult to read, at least for this American reader, but I would consider it essential for anyone pondering the case. Given Machen's strong bias, I think it is a good idea to balance this with Judith Moore' The Appearance of Truth, which is strongly biased in favor of Canning.
Treherne reaches similar conclusions, although he is not as methodical in his analysis. His book, The Canning Enigma, does offer a better narrative of surrounding events, and he reviews the conclusions of other authors, so it is a good additional source. Lillian de la Torre's Elizabeth is Missing indulges in rather wild speculation, but offers the interesting alternative explanation that EC was suffering from hysterical amnesia, and her misstatements were caused by confusion, rather than deliberate lies. ( )