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William Guy - Victorian CSI - 9780752455136 - V9780752455136
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Victorian CSI

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Description for Victorian CSI Paperback. Helps a detective to tell whether the victim had suffocated, drowned, been shot, stabbed, or struck by lightning, spontaneously combusted, frozen to death or expired due to starvation. This book contains suggestions which include examining the face of the deceased for an 'expression of angry resistance', and a clear indication of murder. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.

The first edition of William A. Guy's "Principles of Forensic Medicine" was published at the start of Victoria's reign; the final edition, from which these selections derive, was published towards the end, just a few years after the Whitechapel horrors had pushed the emerging science to the forefront of the public's consciousness. With this guide in hand, a detective could tell whether the victim had suffocated, drowned, been shot, stabbed, or struck by lightning, spontaneously combusted, frozen to death or expired due to starvation - or, as the guide warns, was not dead at all, but simply in a state ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752455136
SKU
V9780752455136
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Ref
99-5

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