THE CONQUEST OF CRIME An Outline of Scientific Criminology.

Hardback, 1st edn. With this book the author completed a projected series of books - an outline of criminology in its scientific sense. This is a book of facts as intriguing as any fiction. Assisted by police authorities and criminologists in several countries, he has wrote an outline of scientific criminology which became a standard work on the subject. Chapter headings include : Fingerprints, Forensic Ballistics, Identification, Forensic Medicine, Forensic Chemistry, Document and Forgeries, Codes and Ciphers, Microscopy, Scientific Criminology in Practice. Illus., General Bibliog. and Appendix. 239pp. 8vo. h/back. V.v. sl. sunned sp., lightly foxed edges and eps o/w Nr. F.