Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic ScienceThis is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. Ronald R. Thomas is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the devices fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors and the