The Century of the Detective

This audiobook, based on real facts and examples from the most loud and mysterious criminal cases of the past, describes the history of the emergence and development of criminalistics. Its heroes include policemen and doctors, chemists and private detectives, psychiatrists, and even writers—all those who contributed to scientific methods of finding criminals.

Why was fingerprinting, without which no police investigation is possible today, considered pseudoscience for so long? Who invented the police photography system? Which of the classic writers played an important role in the fight against crime? What path did forensic medicine take over 100 years? These are only a few of the questions answered by the fascinating “The Century of Criminalistics” by Jürgen Thorwald!