FINGERPRINTS: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science
Language: English
Published by Hyperion, New York, 2001
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Blackbird Bookshop, Trumbull, CT, U.S.A.Blackbird Bookshop
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Fine book in like jacket.; It is almost impossible to imagine that prior to the twentieth century, there was no reliable way to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent. All that changed in Britain in 1905 when the bloody bodies of an elderly couple were discovered in their shop and a solitary fingerprint was the only piece of evidence. ; 8.6 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 256 pages.
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- Title
- FINGERPRINTS: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science
- Author
- Beavan, Colin
- Publisher
- Hyperion, New York
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0786866071
- ISBN 13
- 9780786866076
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- True Crime
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Blackbird Bookshop
Trumbull, CT, U.S.A.
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