CRACKING CRIME. Jim Donovan - Forensic Detective

Paperback. With a Foreword by Professor John Harbison. The author tells the remarkable story of Dr. Jim Donovan, head of the Forensic Science Laboratory and reveals the power of forensics in cracking crime - often from a clue as minute as a single hair. Cases include : the dreadful murder of Mary Duffy; the assassination of Lord Mountbatten; the Lisdoonvarna arsonist who left behind a glove of flesh; James Lynagh - ritual killer; the fatal sex games of Adrian Bambrick; Garda murders - Noel and Marie Murray. Also includes international crimes such as the Lindbergh kidnapping; the killing spree of 'Doctor Death'; Harold Shipman and how DNA finally solved the mystery of the missing Nazi, Martin Bormann. Read a first-hand account of the duel between forensics and Ireland's most notorious criminal, Martin Cahill, which Cahill tried to resolve by placing a bomb under Dr. Donovan's car - causing him horrendous injuries. Illus. 302pp. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.