The D.A. Breaks an Egg

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While the closing chapters of this book were bring dictated, I was working with Dr. LeMoyne Snyder on the investigation of a real murder fully as mysterious as any I have chronicled in fiction.

Dr. Snyder is the author of Homicide Investigation, generally conceded to be one of the most authoritative textbooks in the field of legal medicine. He is both a lawyer and a doctor. During the past four or five years we have been more or less intimately associated in the investigation of four homicides. I have learned to know him both as a friend and a criminologist. An outstanding medicolegal expert, he is a clever lawyer and a skillful physician and surgeon.

In company with Leonarde Keeler, the famous Polygraph expert who has done so much to perfect the so-called lie detector and elevate it to a position where it is now an invaluable tool in the hands of the criminologist, Dr. Snyder worked on the famous German Crown Jewel case. Not only has Dr. Snyder solved many mysteries, but his knowledge of anatomy and bloodstains enabled him to clear up a homicide in which I was interested. This was one of the cases of the “Court of Last Resort” where Raymond Schindler, the great detective, Dr. LeMoyne Snyder, Leonarde Keeler and I have been working in connection with Argosy magazine to reexamine cases of penniless men who have been wrongfully convicted of homicide.

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