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The Modern Sherlock Holmes brings right up to date the meticulous detection methods set down by Sherlock Holmes one hundred years ago. From genetic profiling to gas chromatography and infra-red scanning, this introduction to the most modern forensic techniques takes the reader step by step through crime detection today.
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The Modern Sherlock Holmes: An Introduction to Forensic Science Today
1991, Broadcast Books
Hardcover
in English
0951562932 9780951562932
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Table of Contents
Introduction: forensic science in the 1990s --
Sherlock Holmes and the history of forensic science --
The scene of the crime --
The investigation of fire --
Firearms and the science of ballistics --
Dentistry: the 'fingerprint' of the mouth --
Fingerprints: modern DNA profiling --
Piecing together the physical evidence --
Forensic pathology: the science of unexpected death --
Biology: the unique evidence of DNA --
Entomology: the evidence of insects --
Questioned documents: forgeries and disguise --
Psychiatry: unravelling the criminal mind --
Toxicology: detecting drugs and poisons.
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