Paperback. SIGNED. Introduction by Colin Wilson. Today forensic science can trap a killer on a single hair, or a bitemark, or even with a twist of fibre. Here the author draws on case histories to illustrate how forensic science has developed by leaps and bounds over the last 200yrs. Fingerprinting and blood-typing, ballistics, toxicology, plus the latest psychological profile techniques are all included in his gripping catalogue of detection which demonstrates that it is harder and harder to get away with murder. Includes Sutcliffe, Bundy, Duffy, Nilsen, Nielson, Bamber, Ruxton, Crippen, Spilsbury. Illus., Select Bibliog. and Index. 298pp. p/back. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BRIAN MARRINER. Lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.