Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Dectection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science - Couverture souple

Beavan, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786885289 ISBN 13 : 9780786885282

Editeur : Hyperion, 2002

Synopsis

Now available in paperback -- the history of fingerprinting, as "fascinating, informative and as gripping as a great crime novel" --Simon Singh, author of Fermat's Enigma and The Code Book.

It is almost impossible to imagine that prior to the 20th 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 became the only piece of evidence . . .

A propos du livre

It is almost impossible to imagine that prior to the 20th 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 became the only piece of evidence . . .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hyperion
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786885289
• ISBN 13: 9780786885282
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible