FINGERPRINTS: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science
by Beavan, Colin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0786866071
- ISBN 13
- 9780786866076
- Seller
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Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hyperion. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. It is almost impossible to imagine that prior to the twentieth century, there was no reliable way to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent. All that changed in Britain in 1905 when the bloody bodies of an elderly couple were discovered in their shop and a solitary fingerprint was the only piece of evidence. ; 8.6 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 256 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Blackbird Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7887
- Title
- FINGERPRINTS: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science
- Author
- Beavan, Colin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket; Fine book in like jacket.
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0786866071
- ISBN 13
- 9780786866076
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- TRUE Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRUE CRIME;
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About the Seller
Blackbird Bookshop
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Trumbull, Connecticut
About Blackbird Bookshop
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