Unexplained deaths : how one woman changed homicide investigation forever
Goldfarb, Bruce2021
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For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. That is, until Frances Glessner Lee. Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she became the mother of modern forensics and was instrumental in elevating homicide investigation to a scientific discipline. In 'Unexplained Deaths', Bruce Goldfarb weaves Lee's remarkable story with the advances in forensics made in her lifetime to tell the tale of the birth of modern forensics.
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Author:
Goldfarb, Bruce, author
Imprint:
London : Endeavour, 2021.
Collation:
320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781913068271 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
363.25092920 LEEB/LEE363.2509B LEEB
Language:
English
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BRN:
2527287
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