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Drink! For Once Dead (LIN)
Offences of club-breaking are ten a penny, even in Yorkshire, but not when committed by a thief from Lancashire, especially when that thief has been dead for the last six months. Beer drinking is common too, but only amongst the living. So could a dead man's fingerprints turn up on a fresh beer glass?
Harry Chamberlane said it was impossible, but interesting. If there was a way of supping pints of beer six months after you were dead, Chamberlane wanted to know about it, so he spent some time working with his colleagues from Yorkshire, in an effort to discover the trick. What he discovered were some very disturbing possibilities about the science of fingerprint identification. Was it really the infallible system it was reckoned to be?
And, far from wasting his time with a little screwing job, Chamberlane also discovered death in some unusual forms - and came within a whisker of his own death.
Harry Chamberlane said it was impossible, but interesting. If there was a way of supping pints of beer six months after you were dead, Chamberlane wanted to know about it, so he spent some time working with his colleagues from Yorkshire, in an effort to discover the trick. What he discovered were some very disturbing possibilities about the science of fingerprint identification. Was it really the infallible system it was reckoned to be?
And, far from wasting his time with a little screwing job, Chamberlane also discovered death in some unusual forms - and came within a whisker of his own death.
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
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