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Fingerprints : dead people do tell tales / Chana Stiefel.

Stiefel, Chana, (Author).
  • Description: 104 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Berkeley Heights, N.J. : Enslow Publishers,
  • ISBN: 9780766036895
  • ISBN: 0766036898

Available copies

  • 1 copy at NOBLE (All Libraries).

Current holds

0 current holds with 2 total copies.

Library Location Call Number Status Due Date
Gloucester YA Nonficton YA 363.25/Stiefel (Text to phone) Available -
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Contents: The wild will west story : what are fingerprints and what makes them unique? -- On the record : how fingerprints became instant I.D -- The hunt : how do experts locate and lift prints? -- You can run, but you can't hide : how fingerprints catch up with criminals -- Fudging fingerprints : how criminals go to extremes to hide their prints -- Fingerprint flaws : when innocent people are sent to jail -- Instant I.D. : the future of fingerprinting -- Afterword: the system at work.
Summary: "Uses true crime stories to explain the science of forensics and fingerprint evidence"--Provided by publisher.

Subject: Fingerprints > Juvenile literature.
Criminal investigation > Juvenile literature.
Forensic sciences > Juvenile literature.