Book Description
Shares experiments that offer explanations of police lab techniques, including fingerprint analysis, matching hair and tissue samples, and cracking codes.
Author : Robert Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486488640
Shares experiments that offer explanations of police lab techniques, including fingerprint analysis, matching hair and tissue samples, and cracking codes.
Author : Eric Jager
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0316224537
A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the city's chief law enforcement officer -- and one of history's first detectives. As de Tignonville began to investigate, he realized that his hunt for the truth was much more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. A rich portrait of a distant world, Blood Royal is a gripping story of conspiracy, crime and an increasingly desperate hunt for the truth. And in Guillaume de Tignonville, we have an unforgettable detective for the ages, a classic gumshoe for a cobblestoned era.
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Page : 91 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : John L. Apostolou
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802192130
Eight stories from the author of A Book of American Martyrs that display her “mastery of imagery and stream of consciousness” (Kirkus Reviews). Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals—brother and sister. teacher and student, two lonesome strangers on a subway—in the beautiful, bracing prose that has become her signature. In the title story, a white, aspiring professor in Detroit tries to shake a black, male shadow during the summer of the city’s 1967 race riots. In “The Rescuer,” a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral, only to find herself entranced by his dangerous new world. Meanwhile, a young woman prowls the New York City subways in search of her perfect man in “Lorelei.” In each of these short stories, Oates portrays a desperate confrontation with the demons inside us. Sometimes it’s the human who wins, and sometimes it’s the demon. “Oates offers unexpected glimmers of redemption amid the grotesquerie, degradation, and exploitation that fill this collection’s eight tales.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008192456
Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing.’ The Times
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486111644
"The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter" introduce C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective. Also included: "William Wilson," "MS. Found in a Bottle" and "The Oblong Box."
Author : Colin Beavan
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2001-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786866076
The fascinating story of a scientific breakthrough that solved one of the most brutal murders in Englands history and forever changed the criminal justice system. Fingerprints is the dramatic human story of how technology found its way into the criminal justice system, of one brilliant, flawed mans struggle to retain rightful credit for his discovery, and of a confoundingly difficult murder case. Impeccably researched and dramatically told, it traces fingerprinting to its present-day applications and illustrates why the unique tracks we leave with our fingers continue to be one of the most important means of identifying criminals.
Author : D. L. Sayers
Publisher : Bradley Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443702765
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Todd Herzog
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845454395
The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public's reaction to their crimes. The author argues that the development of a new type of crime fiction during this period - which turned literary tradition on its head by focusing on the criminal and abandoning faith in the powers of the rational detective - is intricately related to new ways of understanding criminality among professionals in the fields of law, criminology, and police science. Considering Weimar Germany not only as a culture in crisis (the standard view in both popular and scholarly studies), but also as a culture of crisis, the author explores the ways in which crime and crisis became the foundation of the Republic's self-definition. An interdisciplinary cultural studies project, this book insightfully combines history, sociology, literary studies, and film studies to investigate a topic that cuts across all of these disciplines.