The Modern Sherlock Holmes
Subtitle: An Introduction to Forensic Science Today
Series: BBC World Service
Publisher: Broadcast Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780951562932
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Social history; Crime & criminology
Notes: UK edition
Table of contents: title: Introduction: forensic science in the 1990s --; title: Sherlock Holmes and the history of forensic science --; title: The scene of the crime --; title: The investigation of fire --; title: Firearms and the science of ballistics --; title: Dentistry: the 'fingerprint' of the mouth --; title: Fingerprints: modern DNA profiling --; title: Piecing together the physical evidence --; title: Forensic pathology: the science of unexpected death --; title: Biology: the unique evidence of DNA --; title: Entomology: the evidence of insects --; title: Questioned documents: forgeries and disguise --; title: Psychiatry: unravelling the criminal mind --; title: Toxicology: detecting drugs and poisons.