The Blooding: The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic ""Fingerprinting""

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Joseph Wambaugh

The Blooding

The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic ""Fingerprinting""

Joseph Wambaugh

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English

Random House Inc
01 March 1995

True crime; Crime & criminology

Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough.

Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved.

Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered.

But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.

By: Joseph Wambaugh
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780553763300
ISBN 10: 055376330X
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 01 March 1995
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joseph Wambaughis the hard-hitting bestselling writer who conveys the passionate immediacy of a special world. He was a police officer with the LAPD for14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels. Over the course of his career, Wambaugh has been the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, all written in his gritty, distinctive noir-ish style. He's won multiple Edgar Awards, and several of his books have been made into feature films and TV movies. He lives in California with his wife.

Reviews for The Blooding: The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic ""Fingerprinting""

Wambaughs darkest nonfiction since The Onion Field. . . . A meticulous and suspenseful reconstruction . . . . A powerful and elegant police procedural. --Kirkus Reviews. Like that cop that he was, Wambaugh brings his English colleagues to vivid life, and like the instinctive reporter that he is, he makes Narborough seem more like Brigadoon than contemporary Britain. For this one, both thumbs up. --New York Daily News Wambaughs darkest nonfiction since The Onion Field. . . . A meticulous and suspenseful reconstruction . . . . A powerful and elegant police procedural. -- Kirkus Reviews. Like that cop that he was, Wambaugh brings his English colleagues to vivid life, and like the instinctive reporter that he is, he makes Narborough seem more like Brigadoon than contemporary Britain. For this one, both thumbs up. -- New York Daily News