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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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H. W. Twyman, "White Crystals at the Blue Anchor," Dynamic Detective, July 1937
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Riding the Forensic Wave

H. W. Twyman, "White Crystals at the Blue Anchor," Dynamic Detective, July 1937
Crime magazines fed readers lurid stories that sometimes featured forensic science, like this tale of a 1924 murder solved by Bernard Spilsbury, the celebrated forensic pathologist.
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