Fatal Evidence: Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the Dawn of Forensic Science

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Note on Text......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Chapter 1 Go Thy Way, Passenger......Page 10
Chapter 2 More of Impulse than Discretion......Page 21
Chapter 3 Fearful and Wonderful......Page 28
Chapter 4 The Light of an English Sun......Page 35
Chapter 5 One of the Most Eminent Men......Page 45
Chapter 6 My Heart is as Hard as a Stone......Page 57
Chapter 7 The Means of our Preservation......Page 67
Plate section......Page 78
Chapter 8 The Only Friend I had in the World......Page 94
Chapter 9 The Formidable Scourge......Page 104
Chapter 10 His Very High Position......Page 116
Chapter 11 Romantic, Mysterious, and Singular......Page 128
Chapter 12 Enter Not into the Path of the Wicked......Page 138
Chapter 13 Truth Will Always Go the Farthest......Page 168
Chapter 14 Grieved Beyond all Endurance
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Chapter 15 You are the Villain......Page 191
Chapter 16 Blood Enough......Page 204
Chapter 17 The Eminent Opinion of Professor Taylor......Page 215
Timeline......Page 229
Acknowledgements......Page 231
Further Reading......Page 232
Selected Bibliography......Page 233
Notes......Page 238
Index......Page 250