The cover of this audio book looked so boring and I remembered this S. Paget and thought it would be much better.
This is dedicated more to true crime really. It uses Holmes adventures as a sort of spring-board.
A summary from forensic.to
Everyone loves a mystery, and mystery-lovers are fascinated by Sherlock Holmes and forensic science. The Science of Sherlock Holmes is an objective, comprehensive, and entertaining exploration of Sherlock Holmes’s contributions to forensic science. As described in Wiley’s Winter 2006 catalog - “From autopsies to zoology: how Holmes eliminated the impossible” - this book uses the legendary adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a jumping-off point to discuss the growth of forensic science during the 19th and early 20th century. The book explores the emergence of science from superstition, how forensic autopsies evolved from anatomical dissection, and the huge advances in blood chemistry and poison detection during the Victorian era. Delving into the early use of fingerprints, photography and trace evidence, it demonstrates how fact followed fiction in developing techniques of crime scene investigation. The Science of Sherlock Holmes presents sardonic new insights into landmark criminal cases that influenced the forensic world, including the 1849 Parkman/Webster dismemberment at Harvard Medical College, the slaughter of Jessie M’pherson in 1862 Scotland and the sanguinary cases of Lizzie Borden and Jack the Ripper. The book includes rare period illustrations.
You can read some of it on Google Books from where I got this chapter list.
Preface
01 Dialogue with the Dead
02 Beastly Tales and Black Dogs
03 A Fly in the Ointment
04 Proving Poison
05 Disguise and the Detective
06 The Crime Scene by Gaslight
07 A Picture of Guilt
08 Shots In The Dark
09 Bad Impressions
10 The Real Dirt
11 Notes from the Devil
12 A Voice in the Blood
13 Myth, Medicine and Murder
I have this as 2 files.
They are low bit rate 32kbps.
This is the unabridged version of the book narrated by the writer and Simon Prebble.
The book in total is 8 hours 38 minutes long.
The first part has the preface and chapters 1 through 7.
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