John Long Limited, London 1970. Foxing to page edges and on endpapers. Tears in dustjacket at top left of spine and bottom right of spine, other small tears along dustjacket edges (repaired internally with brown paper and covered with plastic to protect from further damage), dustjacket spine very faded.

Through three decades Dr. Lynch was consultant pathologist to the New Zealand police. Those years covered medical science's steady development in detecting crime in a country which has an outstanding record for bringing criminals to justice. The author's cases are varied and startling. Necessarily each chapter begins with a body; some are known, some are waiting identification - all are in various stages of destruction. In one case the body was in separate suitcases; in another a woman literally rose from the grave to point to her murderer; in a third the bullet holes in the corpse indicated New Zealand's first gang killing. The author also deals in detail with possibly his most celebrated case: the savage rape and murder of a woman by a stranger who fled without leaving a clue to his identity - other than the state of the battered body. A book providing a remarkable record of one man's dedication and resource in the field of forensic medicine.