What the corpse revealed : murder and the science of forensic detection /

Presented here in dramatic detail are sixteen real-life criminal cases taken from the files of forensic scientists all over the world. In What the Corpse Revealed, author and forensic expert Hugh Miller collects these true-crime stories that confounded traditional police detection. Including only th...

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Main Author: Miller, Hugh, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
New York : 1999.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
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