What the Corpse Revealed - Softcover

Miller, Hugh

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ISBN 10: 0312975732 ISBN 13: 9780312975739

Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime, 2000

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The victim was shot through the heart--but no bullet was ever found.
In a case full of baffling twists, a gunshot wound to the heart leads to a brilliant investigator to one conclusion: a bullet designed to disappear...

The skin was peeled from the victim's hands
A beautiful woman almost gets away with murder because her victim cannot be identified. Then a forensic scientist leads police to the peeled skin from two boiled hands--and the fingerprints that will crack the case.

The murder weapon was smashed to smithereens
A man was killed by a blow from a bottle. Now, determined investigator carefully puts the pieces of glass back together to catch a kiler--and to carry out a crime of his own...

What the corpse revealed
Once detectives solved crimes with shoe leather and a gun. Now they use DNA samples, blood splatters, microbes and psychological profilings. This extraordinary book, through details drawn from some of the most baffling cases of the last fifty years, shows how a new generation fo real-life crime busters is catching stalkers, poisoners, mass murderers, and assassins--through the astounding art of forensic science.

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In vivid detail, What the Corpse Revealed demonstrates the techniques used to solve sixteen real-life cases drawn from the files of forensic scientists all over the world.

-In a room with no windows, the door locked from the inside, a business tycoon and his wife are found shot to death. No trace of the bullets can be found. The murderer is playing games with the police, but can a smart young forensic scientist outwit him?

-A little boy disappears from a playground while his father reads a newspaper nearby. Police are baffled by the disappearance, until the forensic team sweeps the boy's home and finds evidence that will uncover a hideous and almost unbelievable crime.

-A retired TV star receives a series of poisoned pen letters in his luxurious Bel Air mansion. Mysterious attempts on his life follow. Forensic scientists match the fingerprints on the letters to those of his brother. Yet his brother died in a house fire more than ten years ago....

About the Author:

Hugh Miller is the author of many nonfiction books and several successful novels, including his highly acclaimed series featuring Detective Mike Fletcher. He has written extensively for television and is an acknowledged expert on forensic medicine. He lives in England.

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