The Science of Sherlock Holmes: from Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases.THE SCIENCE OF SHERLOCK A Macintosh utility starting with Version 8.5 of the operating system that provides a common facility for searching the local hard disk, the local network and the Internet. HOLMES: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics See computer forensics. behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases E.J. WAGNER Legendary author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of literature's most famous characters, the detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was a man of science who prized fact, evidence, and meticulous forensics over assumption and superstition. In this book, Wagner merges her fascination with true-crime history with her love for the Holmes stories. Wagner tells readers, for instance, that as examination of corpses and autopsies became standard forensic procedure in the 19th century, Doyle's stories "A Study in Scarlet "A Study in Scarlet" is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1887. It is significant as the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later go on to become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective " and "The Resident Patient" reflected that trend. A man of science, Holmes debunked many of the prevailing misconceptions about death, including the belief that fingernails and hair continue to grow. Wagner outlines the history of forensic techniques, including fingerprinting, identifying poisons, studying footprints, and analyzing blood stains, and she details the roles that they played in Doyle's famous fictional cases as well as in the celebrated real-life cases of Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper, name given to an unidentified late-19th-century murderer in London, England. From Aug. to Nov., 1888, he was responsible for the death and mutilation of at least seven female prostitutes in the East End section of London. and Lizzie Borden For other persons named Lizzie Borden, see Lizzie Borden (disambiguation). Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19 1860 – June 1 1927) was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the axe murders of her father and stepmother on August 4 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts, . Wiley, John & Sons, 2006, 256 p., hardcover, $24.95. |
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