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Good. First American edition. Good Hardcover, 1st US edition, no dustwrapper. Book has minor wear of spine ends and cover edges, light fading cover, soiling and brown spotting of foredges. Clean text. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Good in good dust jacket. DJ is a plastic sleeve. Minor edge soiling. Text in English, German. ix, 494 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book. " The first part of this book highlights the use of increasingly refined tests of blood and other body secretions in detection work. The second part centers on the detection of clues contained in the so-called microtraces, such as dust, fiber fragments, plant particles, sand, earth, crumbs, hair. By linking the progress-and occasionally the failure-of science to the court cases that brought them into the limelight, Thorwald creates a story of high power and drama. Ranging from Europe, Canada, the US, and Australia, from attic laboratories to atomic research centers, Thorwald shows Science as forever challenged by the growing sophistication of the criminal. In his absorbing telling, Science is seen trying, often successfully, to rise to each new, hair-raising occasion.
