A Century of Criminalistics

20 hrs. 2 min.

Language Russian

Author Jürgen Thorwald

Narrator Yury Zaborovsky

Description

Jürgen Thorwald’s worldwide bestseller. It is a scientific detective story, or the detective story of a science. Based on reliable facts, this fascinating account of the dramatic history of the emergence and development of criminalistics is illustrated by examples from the investigation of specific criminal cases. The description of events constantly moves from one country to another, and often from continent to continent (from France to England, then to India or the USA, then back to Europe).
The heroes of the book are not only criminals and detectives, but also scientists, psychiatrists, and writers. Thorwald demonstrates the connection of criminalistics both with the natural sciences and with literature, describing the amazing fates of people involved in criminal investigation and in literary work, and showing that the development of detective work was in many ways shaped by writers who, like Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, or Émile Gaboriau, chose the work of detectives as the subject of their writings.