The Science of Sherlock Holmes - The Beginnings of Criminal Science

Jack the Ripper and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle witness the birth of criminal science

. The book thus constitutes a quality introduction to the different fields of scientific police, from forensic medicine to handwriting expertise, including ballistics, fingerprint analysis and toxicology. An afterword by Patrick Rouger, coordinator of Police technique et scientifique, presents the tools that current scientific police would make available to Sherlock Holmes if he returned to conduct his investigations in the 21st century.

Author EJ WAGNER