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Detective fiction and the rise of forensic science

by Ronald R. Thomas

1999 341 pages eng

"This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a w…

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