Thorwald - The Marks of Cain - T&H - 1965
Another addition to my book collection, a very interesting book on the history of fingerprinting and ballistics, aimed at the general reader.
I`ve not made much progress with it yet as I was part-way through another book when it arrived. However, I`m enjoying what I`ve read so far.
Much of the contents are covered elsewhere - Vidocq, Bertillon, the history of Scotland Yard - but it is quite wide-ranging and some of the cases etc discussed are not so well-known, or not known to me at any rate.
Mine is the UK first edition, published a year later than the original German edition, but wasn`t especially expensive.
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