Science and the Detective

Part 1: Science and the Fight Against Crime: What is Forensic Science?; Misuse of Forensic Science; No Solicitors Please!; Expert Witnesses and Unique Evidence? Part 2: Fingerprints: The History of Fingerprinting; Developing Latent Fingerprints; Storing and Using Fingerprint Images. Part 3: Footprints and Other Vestiges: Footprints the Downfall of Idol Priests!; Recording and Developing Footprints at the Scene of the Crime; Tiresome Evidence; First and Last Impressions. Part 4: Fragmentary Evidence and Tell-Tale Dust: Locard's Principle; Pigmented and Refractive Fragments; Tell-Tale Dust; Hairs and Fibers; Who Killed Napoleon?; Fragmentary Evidence and the Saga of the Great Fiddle; Fragmentary Evidence Points to Modern Fabrication of Supposedly Antique Documents. Part 5: Bullets, Bombs and Body Armour: Gunshot Residues; Has the Suspect Handled Explosives Recently?; What Can Vallistics Tell Us?; Body Armour. Part 6: Electronic Ears and Eyes: Is That You Charlie?; Should We eat More Carrots?; Speed Reading; What About Those Watching Electronic Eyes? Part 7: Bloodhounds Real and Synthetic: Dogged Detective Work; Why Onions Make You Cry?; Dog Detective Performances; Red Herrings and Work Fatigue; K.9 Synthetic Bloodhounds; Olfactronic Signatures of Individuals, Locations and Compounds. Part 8: Drunken Drivers, Drugged Individuals and Distracted Horses: Alcohol Abuse; Testing for Alcohol; Detecting and Analysing Drugs; Tell-Tale Vestiges of Drug Usage in Hair; Were the Witches of Salem High on LSD?; Drugs and Athletic Performance; Drugs and Distracted Horses. Part 9: Poisoned Arrows and Dangerous Bulgarian Brollies: Poisoned Points; Omelettes, Flypapers and Weed Killers - A Look at how Arsenic has been used in the Commission of Crime; Bitter Almonds and Sudden Death; Curiosity (and a Poisonous House Plant) Killed the cat; Was Van Gogh a Victim of Plant Poison?; Lethal Hamburgers and a new Wrinkle on Botulism; Seafood Zombies; Deadly Mushrooms and Killers from the Crypt; Crazy Cats and mad Hatters; Poisonous Plants and Sweet Wine; The Synergistic Killers; Frye the Witness. Part 10: Forgery and Fraud: Are You Sincere?; Paper, the Forgers Nemesis?; Ink and Toner; Counterfeit Currency and Cheques; False Stamps and Postal Fraud; Jurassic Adventure in the Land of Fraudulent Archaeological Specimens; Artistic Frauds; Fraud in the Marketplace; Checking up on Suspicious Signatures and Documents; Fraud in Science. Part 11: Bodies, Bones and Blood: Talkative Bodies; What Bones can Tell Us; "Your Brother's Blood is Crying out to Me from the Ground". Part 12: Alphabet Soup and Genetic Fingerprinting: Coded Information for Building the Body; Constructing the Genetic Fingerprint; Using Genetic Fingerprints; Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics! References; Author Index; Subject Index.