DEAD MEN TELL TALES.

Hardback. Tr. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. The second volume in a remarkable series, telling of the dramatic successes and failures of forensic medicine. A turning-point in the history of criminal investigation came when precise measurements of a rotting corpse found in a trunk near Lyons in November 1889, enabled the great forensic scientist, Lacassagne, to identify the dead man. After this first exciting foray, the practice of forensic medicine went from strength to strength, thanks to the men and women who devoted their lives to perfecting the knowledge of pathology as a weapon in the war against crime. This is their story. Contents include : Gouffe, Crippen, George Joseph Smith, John Donald Merrett, Ruxton, Hume, Drs. Keith Simpson and Francis E. Camps, + much, much more. Illus. with 31 b/w plates, Sources, and Index. 222pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned edges and eps o/w Vg+ in F. dw.