SCIENCE VERSUS CRIME

Hardback. 1st UK edn. The detection, pursuit and prevention of crime. The 101 ways in which the criminologist is constantly trying to outwit the criminal by the aid of science. Includes : guns and bullets, identification, finger-prints, forgery, poisons, blood stains, dust analysis, clues in wood, pursuit by radio, safes and unsafes, photomicrography. Illus. 303pp. 8vo. h/back. Black cloth/red lettering. Previous owner's name and address on fep, lightly browned pp., small piece missing from head of sp., small split to tail. G++