Beavan, Colin, - Fingerprints: the origins of crime detection and the murder case that launched forensic science.

NY, Hyperion, (2001). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. It is almost impossible to imagine that prior to the 20th century there no reliable way to distinguish between the guilty. and the innocent. All that changed in 1905 when the bloody bodies of an elderly couple were discovered in their shop. A solitary finerprint was the only piece of evidence. Beavan uses several gripipng real-life dramas at the turn of the century as the under pinning for an engagine history of the rise of forensic science. A fascinating story of science and the law.

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