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Blood, sweat, and fear : the story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver's first forensic investigator

Blood, sweat, and fear : the story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver's first forensic investigator

Book 2017

"The intriguing criminal cases of pioneer forensics expert John Vance, "Canada's Sherlock Holmes." Heralded internationally as "Canada's Sherlock Holmes," John F.C.B. Vance (1884-1964) was Vancouver's, and British Columbia's, first forensic investigator. Despite his innocuous demeanour, during his forty-two-year career Vance helped police detectives to determine murder from suicide as well as solve hit-and-runs, safe-crackings, and some of the mo...