The Century of the Detective

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Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965 - Political Science - 500 pages
Includes material on Alphonese Bertillon, Scotland Yard, Adolf Beck, Doctor Crippen, Bernard Spilsbury, Marie Lafarge, Marie Besnard, Sacco-Vanzett, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, among other topics.

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The story of the Sûreté Vidocq
3
The astonishing Weber case Infant mortality in the Goutte dOr
9
Hand Marks The first use of fingerprints
13
Copyright

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