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THE ULTIMATE READERS� GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS!
An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect�s wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer�s precise geographical path . . . A gluttonous criminal�s fingerprints are lifted from a chocolate truffle. . . .
Filled with these and many other intriguing true stories, and packed with black and white illustrations and photographs, The Forensic Casebook draws on interviews with police personnel and forensic scientists�including animal examiners, botanists, zoologists, firearms specialists, and autoposists�to uncover the vast and detailed underworkings of criminal investigation. Encyclopedic in scope, this riveting, authoritative book leaves no aspect of forensic science untouched, covering such fascinating topics as:
� Securing a crime scene
� Identifying blood splatter patterns
� Collecting fingerprints�and feet, lip, and ear prints
� Interpreting the stages of a body�s decay
� Examining hair and fiber evidence
� Trace evidence from firearms and explosives
� �Lifting� DNA prints
� Computer crime and forensic photography
� Career paths in criminal science
Lucidly written and spiked with real crime stories, The Forensic Casebook exposes the nitty gritty that other books only touch upon. Here is a reference book as addictive as a page-turning novel of suspense.
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