Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome But Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science McCrery NigelPaperback
Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome But Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science McCrery NigelPaperback Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the…
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Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome But Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science McCrery NigelPaperback
Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over the past two centuries. Readers are introduced to such fascinating figures as Dr. The book weaves dramatic narrative and scientific principles together in a way that allows readers to figure out crimes along with the experts.
Landmark crime investigations examined in depth include a notorious murder involving blood evidence and defended by F. Edmond Locard, the "French Sherlock Holmes"; Edward Heinrich, "Wizard of Berkeley," who is credited with having solved more than 2,000 crimes; and Alphonse Bertillon, the French scientist whose guiding principle, "no two individuals share the same characteristics," became the core of criminal identification. Lee Bailey, the seminal 1936 murder that demonstrated the usefulness of the microscope in