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Dynamic Detective, July 1937
Sherlock Holmes working with chemical apparatus, 1892
A True Relation of a Barbarous Bloody Murther… , London, 1688s
W. E. Bigelow, An Exposé of the Evidence in the Case of the Parkman Murder, Boston, 1850
The Poison Fiend; Life and Conviction of Lydia Sherman… for Poisoning Three Husbands and Eight of Her Children… , Philadelphia, 1873
National Police Gazette, June 15, 1889
Douglas G. Browne and E. V. Tullett, Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases, London, 1951, reprint 1983
Sydney Smith, Mostly Murder, London, 1959
H. W. Twyman, "White Crystals at the Blue Anchor," Dynamic Detective, July 1937
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W. E. Bigelow, An Exposé of the Evidence in the Case of the Parkman Murder, Boston, 1850
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Riding the Forensic Wave

W. E. Bigelow, An Exposé of the Evidence in the Case of the Parkman Murder, Boston, 1850
In November 1849, George Parkman, an eminent Bostonian, mysteriously disappeared. When body parts were found, a dental plate helped identify the remains—and convict a Harvard medical professor of the murder. Pamphlets and newspapers narrated the case as it unfolded.
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