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      Silent Witnesses

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      Throwing open the casebook, it introduces us to such luminaries as 'The Wizard of Berkeley' Edward Heinrich, who is credited with having solved over 2000 crimes, and Alphonse Bertillon, the French scientist whose guiding principle 'no two individuals share the same characteris...

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      Product ID:9780099569244
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Silent Witnesses
      Authors:Author: Nigel McCrery
      Page Count:304
      Subjects:True crime, True crime, Social and cultural history, Pathology, History of science, Social & cultural history, Pathology, History of science
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      Throwing open the casebook, it introduces us to such luminaries as 'The Wizard of Berkeley' Edward Heinrich, who is credited with having solved over 2000 crimes, and Alphonse Bertillon, the French scientist whose guiding principle 'no two individuals share the same characteristics' became the core of identification.

      A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.

      The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us.

      Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation and leaps in scientific knowledge have developed this fascinating branch of detection. Throwing open the casebook, it introduces us to such luminaries as ''The Wizard of Berkeley'' Edward Heinrich, who is credited with having solved over 2000 crimes, and Alphonse Bertillon, the French scientist whose guiding principle ''no two individuals share the same characteristics'' became the core of identification. Along the way, it takes us to India and Australia, Columbia and China, Russia, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. And it proves that, in order to solve ever more complicated cases, science must always stay one step ahead of the killer.


      Imprint Name:Arrow Books Ltd
      Publisher Name:Cornerstone
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2014-07-03

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      Weight218 g
      Dimensions138 × 199 × 22 mm