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The Knowledge of Sherlock Holmes is a crazy ride in a hansom cab along the street paved by Sherlock Holmes-a ride leading us through medicine, legislation, pathology, toxicology, anatomy, blood chemistry, and the introduction of real-life forensic research through the 19th and 20th decades. Through the "well-marked print of the thumb" over a whitewashed wall in "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" to the trajectory and impact of the bullet in "The Reigate Squires", author E. J. Wagner uses the fantastic Detective's remarkable journeys as springboards in to the real-life forensics in it. You'll meet scientists, investigators, and medical experts, like the larger-than-life Eugène Vidocq of the Paris Sûreté, the identified detective Henry Goddard of London's Bow Block Joggers, the fingerprint expert Sir Francis Galton, and the fantastic but arrogant pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury. You'll explore the historical common myths and bizarre folklore which were challenged by the evolving field of forensics and study the role that brain fever, Black Pet dogs, and vampires played out in criminal history. Real-life Holmesian mysteries abound throughout the publication. What took place to Dr. George Parkman, rich medical professional and philanthropist, previous seen entering the Harvard School of Remedies in 1849? The trial included some of the first expert testimony on handwriting analysis on record-some of it foreshadowing what Holmes said of printed evidence years later within the Hound of the Baskervilles, "But this is my special hobby, and the distinctions are equally evident." Through numerous conditions, including celebrated ones such as those of Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden, the writer traces the influence of the coolly analytical Holmes on the continuous introduction of forensic research from the grasp of superstition. You'll find yourself listening to The Knowledge of Sherlock Holmes as eagerly as you would those of any Holmes mystery.
