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Winner of the 2007 Ned Kelly Award for best True Crime. This well-researched and entertaining audio book looks at the role of forensic investigators in solving dozens of fascinating crimes and mysteries. In a close examination of an assault victim's body, a forensic physician can 'read' the terrible alphabet that fists and weapons have written across it. A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at a bomb site, enabling him to find the can opener that made them - and the bomb-maker who used it. A forensic dentist identifies the thief who dropped some chewing gum, with his teeth marks in it, during a burglary. Liz Porter's riveting case book shows how forensic investigators - including pathologists, chemists, entomologists, DNA specialists and document examiners - have used their expertise in dozens of fascinating crimes and mysteries. Liz Porter, a thorough researcher and entertaining writer, has collected examples of crimes solved by scientific investigation in Australia...This is a compulsive read.' - Sydney Morning Herald. Highly addictive reading for any fans of forensics or CSI' - Kathryn Fox, bestselling author of Without Consent

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