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Pioneers in Crime Detection: A Bibliography of American Books and Pamphlets About Criminalistics and Criminal Investigation, 1892 to 1959
Compiled by Jim Fisher
The books and pamphlets included in this bibliography are scholarly works, manuals, handbooks, and texts primarily intended to inform the practitioner or student. Books written for the layman that are informative but mainly for the entertainment of the reader are excluded. So are government guides.
The term "criminalistics" includes the fields of questioned documents, fingerprints, firearms identification, trace evidence analysis, and other forms of scientific or technological crime detection such as instrumental lie detection. Books about toxicology and forensic medicine are excluded, as are American editions of books by foreign authors.
Each work is numbered and listed according to the year it was initially published. This chronological listing is followed by a subject and author index.
1892
1. Harris, George E., A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF IDENTIFICATION, A SEPARATE BRANCH OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE, Albany, NY: Parsons, 507 pages
1894
2. Frazer, Persifor, A MANUAL FOR THE STUDY OF DOCUMENTS, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 218 pages, illustrated, Second Edition, 1901, BIBLIOTICS; OR, THE STUDY OF DOCUMENTS, reprinted 1974, NY: AMS Press
3. Hagan, William E., A TREATISE ON DISPUTED HANDWRITING AND THE DETERMINATION OF GENUINE FROM FORGED SIGNATURES, NY: Banks and Brothers, 289 pages, reprinted 1974, NY: AMS Press
1900
4. Ames, Daniel T., AMES ON FORGERY: IT'S DETECTION AND ILLUSTRATIONS, NY: Ames-Rollison Co., 293 pages, illustrated, index
5. Kinsley, William J., TALES TOLD BY HANDWRITING, NY: Ames-Rollison Co., 24 pages, illustrated
6. Squyer, H. Seymour, CRIMINAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Auburn, NY: N.P., 16 pages
1901
7. Osborn, Albert S., PHOTOGRAPHY AND FORGERY, Albany, NY: Law Journal Co., 8 pages, illustrated
1903
8. Osborn, Albert S., HANDWRITING TESTIMONY AND HOW TO GET AN EXPERT OPINION, Rochester, NY: Genessee Press, 16 pages
9. Woolridge, Clifton R., THE DETECTIVE'S GUIDE TO SUCCESS, Chicago: Charles C. Thompson, 112 pages
1906
10. Courtney, Francis B., METHODS OF DETECTING FORGERY AND RAISED CHECKS FOR BANK CASHIERS, AND THEIR TRAINING AS HANDWRITING EXPERTS, Milwaukee: Westlake, 30 pages, illustrated
1907
11. Osborn, Albert S., PHOTOGRAPHY AND QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS, Rochester, NY: Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing co., 43 pages, illustrated
1908
12. Osborn, Albert S., INK AND QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS, Rochester, NY: Genessee Press, 19 pages
1909
13. Lavay, Jerome B., DISPUTED HANDWRITING: AN EXHAUSTIVE, VALUABLE, AND COMPREHENSIVE WORK UPON ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SUBJECTS OF TO-DAY, Chicago: Harvard Book Co., 304 pages
1910
14. Brayley, Frederic A., BRAYLEY'S ARRANGEMENT OF FINGER PRINTS: IDENTIFICATION AND THEIR USES, Boston: The Worchester Press, 118 pages, illustrated, index
15. Osborn, Albert S., QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS, Rochester, NY: Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing Co., 501 pages, illustrated, index, bibliography, Second Edition, 1929, reprinted 1973 (second edition) Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith
1911
16. Mitchell, Charles A., SCIENCE AND THE CRIMINAL, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 240 pages, illustrated
1912
17. McClaughy, C.C., APPLICATION OF THE FINGER PRINT METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION, Des Moines, IA: n.p. 6 pages
18. Melcher, W.A., THE DANGERS OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AND SOME METHODS OF PROTECTING AGAINST THEM, Philadelphia: McCann, 12 pages
19. Seymour, Lee, THE SEYMOUR FINGER PRINT SYSTEM, Los Angeles: Lattimer, 8 pages, illustrated
1913
20. Seymour, Lee, FINGER PRINT CLASSIFICATION, Los Angeles: Author, 90 pages, illustrated
1914
21. Melcher, W.A., MECHANICAL INK MARKS: A STUDY OF MECHANOGRAMS AS MEANS OF IDENTIFYING MARKS MADE BY MECHANICAL APPLIANCES AND DETECTING IMITATIONS THEREOF, Philadelphia: n.p. 27 pages
1915
22. Heinrich, Edgar O., IN RE QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS, Tacoma, WA: n.p. 16 pages, illustrated
23. Melcher, W.A., CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF QUESTIONED INK MARKS, Philadelphia: Pomerantz, 11 pages
1916
24. Kuhne, Frederick, THE FINGER PRINT INSTRUCTOR, NY: Munn and Company, 155 pages, illustrated, index, latest edition, 1927
1917
25. O'Sullivan, F. Dalton, ENEMIES OF THE UNDERWORLD, Chicago: The O'Sullivan Publishing Co., 678 pages, illustrated
1918
26. Wentworth, Bert and Harris H. Wilder, PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION: METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS, LIVING AND DEAD, Boston: Badger Co., 374 pages, second edition 1932, Chicago: T.G. Cooke
1920
27. Holt, James H., FINGER PRINTS SIMPLIFIED: A HANDBOOK OF THE SCIENCE OF FINGER PRINT IDENTIFICATION, Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 134 pages, new edition, 1936
1922
28. Lee, Clarence Dunlap and R.A. Abbey, CLASSIFICATION AND IDENTIFICATION OD HANDWRITING, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 113 pages, bibliography, reprinted 1931, Toronto: Carswell
29. Osborn, Albert S., THE PROBLEM OF PROOF: ESPECIALLY AS EXEMPLIFIED IN DISPUTED DOCUMENT TRIALS, NY: Bender, 526 pages, index, bibliography, second edition, 1926 Newark, NJ: The Essex Press
30. O'Sullivan, Frank Dalton, LECTURES ON PREPARATORY SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE INSTRUCTIONS, Chicago: Detective Science Publishing Co., 76 pages, illustrated
31. Ryan, Patrick, THE RYAN DACTYLOPLANE FOR THE FINGER PRINT, NY: n.p., 24 pages, illustrated
32. Wood, George W., SCIENTIFIC HANDWRITING TESTIMONY, Pittsburgh: Cramer, 8 pages, illustrated
1924
33. Crosskey, Walter C.S., THE SINGLE FINGERPRINT SYSTEM, San Francisco: Crosskey System, 264 pages
34. Larson, John A., SINGLE FINGERPRINT SYSTEM, NY: Appleton and Company, 262 pages, illustrated, index, bibliography
35. Wehde, Albert and John Nicholas Beffel, FINGER-PRINTS CAN BE FORGED, Chicago: The Tremonia Publishing Co.
1925
35a. May, Luke S., DETECTING INVISIBLE FINGERPRINTS, Seattle: Scientific Detective Laboratories of Seattle
1927
36. Larson, John A., THE USE OF THE POLYGRAPH IN THE STUDY OF DECEPTION, Chicago: Institute for Juvenile Research, 27 pages
1928
37. O'Sullivan, Frank Dalton, CRIME DETECTION, Chicago: The O'Sullivan Publishing House, 667 pages, Illustrated
1930
38. Fricke, Charles W., CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, Los Angeles: O.W. Smith Law Books, 241 pages, index, Sixth Edition, 1962, LA: Legal Book Store, revised by LeRoy M. Kolbrek
1931
39. Jaycox, Thomas S., CLASSIFICATION OF SINGLE FINGERPRINTS, Wichita, KS: Wichita Kansas Police Department, 30 pages, illustrated
1932
40. Burns, Thomas J., WHAT ARE FINGER PRINTS? Charlotte, SC: Author, 88 pages
41. Dunlap, Charles B., THE SCIENCE OF FINGER PRINTING, Chester, PA: Grieco-Miller Printing Co., 74 pages
42. Frankel, Harold A., FINGER PRINT EXPERT, Philadelphia: Gainor Press, 217 pages, illustrated, index
43. Larson, John A., (in collaboration with George W. Haney and Leonarde Keeler) LYING AND ITS DETECTION, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 453 pages, reprinted 1969, Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith
1933
44. Adams, Arthur T., ADAMS ON FINGER PRINTS, Buffalo, NY: Remington Rand, Inc., 155 pages
45. May, Luke S., SCIENTIFIC MURDER INVESTIGATION, Seattle, WA: Institute of Scientific Criminology, 96 pages
1934
46. Michell, Allen B., SCIENTIFIC IDENTIFICATION, Philadelphia: Eckels College Press, 60 pages, index
1935
47. Boolsen, Frank M., FIFTY-ONE FINGERPRINT SYSTEMS, Alameda, CA: F.M. Boolsen and B.C. Bridges, 41 pages
48. Gunther, Jack D. and Charles O. Gunther, THE IDENTIFICATION OF FIREARMS FROM AMMUNITION FIRED THEREIN: WITH AN ANALYSIS OF LEGAL AUTHORITIES, NY: John Wiley and Son, 342 pages, illustrated, bibliography, Second Edition, 1950
49. Hatcher, Julian S., TEXTBOOK OF FIREARMS INVESTIGATION, IDENTIFICATION AND EVIDENCE: TOGETHER WITH THE TEXTBOOK OF PISTOLS AND REVOLVERS, Marines, NC: Small-Arms Technical Publishing Company, 533 pages, illustrated, bibliography
50. Soderman, Harry and John J. O'Connell, MODERN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 461 pages, illustrated, index, bibliography, Fifth Edition, 1962
1938
51. Clarke, C.D., MOLDING AND CASTING, Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co.
52. Jones, Llyod L., VALID OF FORGED? NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 168 pages
53. Keeler, Leonarde, C.W. Maehlberger, C.M. Wilson, Fred E. Inbau and Katherine Keeler, OUTLINE OF SCIENTIFIC CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, Chicago: Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory
54. Marston, William Moulton, THE LIE DETECTOR TEST, NY: Richard R. Smith, 179 pages, illustrated, index
55. Mundo, A.L., THE EXPERT WITNESS, Los Angeles: Parker and Baird
56. Mairs, G.T., FINGERPRINT STUDY DATA, NY: The Delehanty Institute
1939
57. CLASSIFICATION OF FINGERPRINTS, Washington D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 133 pages, illustrated
58. Skehan, James J., MODERN POLICE WORK INCLUDING DETECTIVE DUTY, Brooklyn: Basuino, revised edition, 1948
1940
59. ACCIDENTAL INVESTIGATION MANUAL, Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Traffic Institute, illustrated, index
60. Ezickson, A.J. and Asa S. Herzog, CAMERA, TAKE THE STAND! Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 194 pages, illustrated
1941
61. Chapel, Charles Edward, FINGERPRINTING - A MANUAL OF IDENTIFICATION, NY: Coward McCann
62. Holt, James, FINGER PRINTS SIMPLIFIED: A HANDBOOK OF THE SCIENCE OF FINGER PRINT IDENTIFICATION, Chicago: Frederick J. Drake, 134 pages, illustrated, index
63. McDonald, Hugh C. and Harry W. Rogers, THE CLASSIFICATION OF POLICE PHOTOGRAPHS, Los Angeles: DeVorss Press, 89 pages
1942
64. Bridges, B.C., PRACTICAL FINGERPRINTING, NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 374 pages, illustrated, index, Second Edition, 1963, revised by Charles E. O'Hara
65. Evans, Edward A., FINGERPRINT INSTRUCTION BOOK, Chicago: Evans National Manufacture and Supply Company
66. Inbau, Fred E., LIE DETECTION AND CRIMINAL INTERROGATION, Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co., illustrated, index, Third Edition, 1953
67. Scott, Charles C., PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, Kansas City, MO: Vernon Law Book Co., 922 pages, Second Edition, 1969
1943
68. Cummins, Harold and Charles Midlo, FINGER PRINTS, PALMS AND SOLES: AN INTRODUCTION TO DERMATOGLYPHICS, Philadelphia: The Blakiston Co., 309 pages, illustrated, index, bibliography, Second Edition, 1964
69. Kreml, Franklin M., THE EVIDENCE HANDBOOK FOR POLICE, Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Traffic Institute
1944
70. Osborn, Albert S. and Albert D. Osborn, QUESTIONED DOCUMENT PROBLEMS: THE DISCOVERY AND PROOF OF THE FACTS, Albany, NY: Boyd Co., revised edition 1946
71. Snyder, Lemoyne M., HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION: PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR CORONERS, POLICE OFFICERS, AND OTHER INVESTIGATORS, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 287 pages, illustrated, index, Third Edition, 1977
1946
72. Hatcher, Julian S., FIREARMS INVESTIGATION, IDENTIFICATION AND EVIDENCE, Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, Second Edition 1957 by Jury and Weller
1947
73. Pratt, Lester A., BANK FRAUDS: THEIR DETECTION AND PREVENTION, NY: The Ronald Press, 247 pages, index
1948
74. Fisher, Jacob, THE ART OF DETECTION, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 248 pages, index, bibliography, reprinted 1961, NY: Sterling Publishing with a forward by Erle Stanley Gardner
75. Hatcher, Julian S., HATCHER'S NOTEBOOK, Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole
76. PHOTOGRAPHY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Company, 112 pages, illustrated, bibliography
1949
77. Eiseman, James, S., ELEMENTS OF INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES, Bloomington, ID: McKnight and McKnight, 182 pages
78. O'Hara, Charles E. and James W. Osterburg, AN INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINALISTICS, NY: MacMillan, 705 pages, illustrated, index, Second Edition, 1972, Bloomington, ID: Indiana University Press, by James W. Osterburg
79. Turner, Ralph F. FORENSIC SCIENC AND LABORATORY TECHNIQUES, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 240 pages, illustrated, index
1950
80. Forrester, Glen C., CHEMICAL TESTS FOR ALCOHOL IN TRAFFIC LAW ENFORCEMENT, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 91 pages
81. Mulbar, Harold, HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas
1951
82. Fitzgerald, Maurice J., HANDBOOK OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, NY: Greenberg Publisher, 234 pages, reprinted NY: Arco Publishing, in print until 1972
83. Mulbar, Harold, CRIMINAL INTERROGATION, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 160 pages, illustrated
84. Scott, W.R., FINGERPRINT MECHANICS FROM CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, Second Edition, 1977
1952
85. Dienstein, William, TECHNIQUES FOR THE CRIME INVESTIGATOR, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 222 pages, Second Edition, 1974
86. Egen, Frederick W., PLAINCLOTHEMAN: A HANDBOOK OF VICE AND GAMBLING INVESTIGATION, NY: Greenberg Publisher, illustrated, index, revised edition, 1959, NY: Arco Publishing Co.
87. Lee, Clarence D., INSTRUMENTAL DETECTION OF DECEPTION, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 249 pages, illustrated, index
1953
88. Baker, J. Stannard (ed.), TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATOR'S MANUAL FOR POLICE, Evanston, ILL: The Traffic Institute of Northwestern University, illustrated, index, latest edition, 1975
89. Kirk, Paul L., CRIME INVESTIGATION: PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND THE POLICE LABORATORY, NY: Interscience Publishers, 784 pages, illustrated, index, Reprinted 1960, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Second Edition, 1974 by John I Thornton
1954
90. Battle, Brendan and Paul B. Weston, ARSON: A HANDBOOK OF DETECTION AND INVESTIGATION, NY: Arco Publishing, 287 pages, illustrated, index, bibliography, Second Edition, 1978
90a. LIEBERS, ARTHUR AND CARL VOLLMER, THE INVESTIGATOR'S HANDBOOK, NY: Arco Publishing, 235 pages, index
1955
91. Baker, J. Newton, THE LAW OF DISPUTED AND FORGED DOCUMENTS, Charlottesville, VA: Michie
1956
92. Hilton, Ordway, SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF DOCUMENTS, Chicago: Callaghan, revised edition, NY: Elsevier Science Publishing Co., 1982
93. O'Hara, Charles E., FUNDAMENTALS OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 722 pages, illsutrated, index, Fifth Edition, 1980
1957
94. Merkeley, D.K., THE INVESTIGATION OF DEATH, Sprinfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas
1958
95. Davis, John E., AN INTRODUCTION TO TOOL MARKS, FIREARMS AND THE STRIAGRAPH, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas
1959
96. Arthur, Richard O. and Rudolph Caputo, INTERROGATION FOR INVESTIGATORS, NY: William C. Copp & Associates
97. Conway, James V.P., EVIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 267 pages, illustrated, index, bibliography
98. Field, Annita T., FINGERPRINT HANDBOOK, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 177 pages, illustrated, index
99. Jones, Leland V., SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas
Arson Investigation --- 90
Chemical Tests for Alcohol --- 80
Criminal Investigation - General --- 25, 37, 38, 50, 58, 69, 74, 77, 79, 82, 85, 93, 90a
Criminalistics - General --- 1, 16, 30, 46, 50, 53, 60, 78, 89, 99
Death Investigation --- 45, 71, 81, 94
Expert Witnesses --- 8, 32, 42, 55
Fingerprints --- 14, 17, 20, 24, 26, 27, 31, 33, 34, 35a, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 56, 57, 61, 62, 64, 65, 68, 84, 98
Firearms Identification --- 48, 49, 72, 75, 95
Fraud Investigation --- 73
Interrogation --- 66, 83, 96
Lie Detection --- 36, 43, 53, 54, 66, 87
Moulage --- 51
Photography --- 6, 7, 11, 60, 63, 67, 76
Polygraph (See Lie Detection)
Questioned Documents --- 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 32, 52, 70, 91, 92, 97
Single Fingerprints --- 33, 34, 39, 47
Tool Marks --- 95
Traffic Investigation --- 59, 88
Vice and Gambling Investigation --- 86
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