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London, Thames & Hudson first edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book tells of the dramatic successes and failures of forensic medicine. A turning-point in the history of criminal investagation 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. The later arrest of the murderer was a triumph of scientific method. 223 x 146mm., pp. 222, b/w plates, names index. Contents, no inscriptions, d.j. lamination lifting near spine (back). VG+/nearVG