Medical Detectives (45 page)

4 Spilsbury at the scene of the Crumbles murder, 1924. (London News Agency)

5 The cellar grave at Hilldrop Crescent, 1910. (Gaute Archive)

6 Letter from Spilsbury accompanying the post-mortem report on Katharine Armstrong, 1922. (Gaute Archive)

7 Sir Sydney Smith. (Harrap)

8 Reconstruction of the murder of the Sirdar, 1924. (Harrap)

9 Children’s bodies found at Hopetoun Quarry, 1913. (Harrap)

10 Sidney Fox, who murdered his mother in 1929. (Gaute Archive)

11 Bertha Merrett’s ear featured as a murder exhibit in 1926. (Gaute Archive)

12 Marsh Test apparatus. (Gaute Archive)

13 Petechial haemorrhages in the eye. (Author’s collection)

14 Comparing striation marks on bullets. (Author’s collection)

15 Professor John Glaister. (Hutchinson)

16 Calculating the time of death. (Author’s collection)

17 Isabella Ruxton’s skull. (Gaute Archive)