Science and the Detective: Selected Reading in Forensic Science

✍ Scribed by Brian H. Kaye

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As an arts student looking for an easy way out of the dreaded mandatory science elective, I found Dr. Kaye's course, and subsequently, his textbook, to be an excellent choice.

He writes with a strong sense of his audience, and manages to make every topic - from footprints to archaeological(...)- as interesting as possible. That said, he does get a little sidetracked when getting into the etymology of scientific terms, (a full page is devoted to how "chroma" and "soma" led to chromasome, for instance) but that's ultimately part of his charm, too.

It's a shame that he has passed away -- his work is as jovial and exciting as science gets.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
ISBN 3527292519......Page 5
Biography......Page 6
Foreword......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
5: Bullets, Bombs and Body Armor......Page 11
9: Poisoned Arrows and Dangerous Bulgarian Brollies......Page 12
Indexes......Page 13
Word Finder (with page links)......Page 14
1: Science and the Fight Against Crime......Page 17
2: Fingerprints......Page 27
3: Footprints and Other Vestiges......Page 61
4: Fragmentary Evidence and Tell-Tale Dust......Page 85
5: Bullets, Bombs and Body Armor......Page 119
6: Electronic Ears and Eyes......Page 149
7: Bloodhounds Real and Synthetic......Page 175
8: Drunken Drivers, Drugged Individuals and Distracted Horses......Page 197
9: Poisoned Arrows and Dangerous Bulgarian Brollies......Page 229
10: Forgery and Fraud......Page 281
11: Bodies. Bones and Blood......Page 349
12: Alphabet Soup and Genetic Fingerprinting......Page 369
Author Index (with page links)......Page 389
Subject Index (with page links)......Page 391
Back Page......Page 405