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Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science

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Published on Saturday, 04 February 2012 21:11
Written by Daryl W. Clemens
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Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this book is sure to appeal to people in the fingerprint profession, and to those who love history. The book centers around "The Shocking Tragedy at Deptford", the murder case which became the first in the United Kingdom which was solved through the use of fingerprint evidence. (There were earlier cases in other countries, and an account of one from Argentina is also included in the text).

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