Jürgen Thorwald

The engrossing story of science versus crime. Includes the use of increasingly refined tests of blood and other body secretions in detection work and the detection of clues contained in the so-called microtraces, such as dust, fiber fragments, plant particles, sand, earth, crumbs, and hair. With 16 pages of illustrations.

Includes material on Alphonese Bertillon, Scotland Yard, Adolf Beck, Doctor Crippen, Bernard Spilsbury, Marie Lafarge, Marie Besnard, Sacco-Vanzett, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, among other topics.

"Triumph of Surgery" begins with the use of local anesthesia, which made it possible to treat cases that had previously been inoperable - tumors of the brain and spinal cord, goiters, pulmonary tuberculosis, hernia, diseases of the eye and nerves. Through the pages of the story move the vivid figures of the Mayo brothers, of Charcot and Freud; Marion Sims, the American doctor of the Empress Eugenie, and others.

The vanished man/Jeffrey Deaver Don't look back/Karin Fossum [Prey]( Crichton Street boys/Lorenzo Carcaterra

Contains: Outpost of freedom / by Roger H.C. Donlon as told to Warren Rogers The double image / by Helen MacInnes [The Yearling]( / by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The century of the detective / by Jürgen Thorwald The way of the eagle : a condensation of The last eagle / by Don Mannix So this is what happened to Charles Moe / by Douglass Wallop