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The measure of malice : scientific detection stories / edited and introduced by Martin Edwards.

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Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2020]

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Forensic sciences -- Fiction.

9781492699620 (paperback) :

xi, 321 pages ; 21 cm

Introduction -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Horror of Studley Grange / L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace -- The Tragedy of a Third Smoker / C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne -- The Man Who Disappeared / L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax -- The Cyprian Bees / Anthony Wynne -- The English Filter / C. E. Bechhofer Roberts -- The Contents of a Mare's Nest / R. Austin Freeman -- After Death the Doctor / J. J. Connington -- The Broken Toad / H. C. Bailey -- In the Teeth of the Evidence / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The Case of the Chemist in the Cupboard / Ernest Dudley -- The Purple Line / John Rhode -- Blood Sport / Edmund Crispin -- The New Cement / Freeman Wills Crofts.

"The detective's role is simple: to catch the culprit. Yet behind each casual observation lies a learned mind, trained in deliberations of logic - preferably amid complicated gadgetry and scientific tomes. The detectives in this collection are masters of scientific deduction, whether they are identifying the perpetrator from a scrap of fabric, or picking out the poison from a sinister line-up. Containing stories by R Austin Freeman, J J Connington and the master of logical reasoning, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Measure of Malice collects tales of rational thinking to prove the power of the human brain over villainous deeds"--

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