Product Description

Filled with intriguing true stories of criminals unmasked and packed with b/w illustrations and photographs, The Forensic Casebook draws on interviews with police and forensic scientists to uncover the vast and detailed underworkings of criminal investigation. Encyclopaedic in scope, this riveting, authoritative book leaves no aspect of forensic science untouched, including securing a crime scene, identifying blood spatter patterns, fingerprinting, DNA printing, examining hairs and fibres, stages of body decay, computer crime and forensic photography and much more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20060 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 332 pages

Synopsis
An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibres of a suspect's wool jacket. A gluttonous criminal's fingerprints are lifted from a chocolate truffle...Filled with these and many other intriguing true stories, 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 under-workings of criminal investigation. Encyclopaedic 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 fibre evidence - Trace evidence from firearms and explosives - "Lifting" DNA prints - Computer crime and forensic photography Lucidly written and spiked with real crime stories, this title exposes the nitty-gritty that other books only touch upon. Here is a reference book as addictive as a page-turning novel of suspense.

Customer Reviews

Just Brilliant!
This book has everything a die-hard forensic fan would love. It tells everything from the crime scene to how to catch the killer. And it has some really great pictures. It also tells what really happens and what people think appens.

I liked this book so much it only took me a few hours to read it from cover to cover.