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For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

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Or... I suppose. False positives and contamination by<br />

subsequent handling or nearby objects (e.g. <strong>the</strong> mixing of blood<br />

from victim and attacker), for example, are problems owing to<br />

<strong>the</strong> presence of <strong>man</strong>y common substances and <strong>the</strong> necessity<br />

of hu<strong>man</strong> involvement in <strong>the</strong> collection of trace evidence (if<br />

only robots were sufficiently developed). Both can occur with<br />

DNA traces and fingerprints. Partial fingerprints are even more<br />

vulnerable to false positives. Samples from accidents or crimes<br />

should <strong>the</strong>refore be protected as much as possible by enclosure<br />

in a sealable container as soon as possible, after an incident is<br />

under investigation.<br />

Or <strong>the</strong> locked-room... In which a crime – almost always<br />

murder – is committed under apparently impossible circumstances.<br />

The crime in question typically involves a crime<br />

scene that no intruder could have entered or left, e.g., a locked<br />

room. Following o<strong>the</strong>r conventions of classic detective fiction,<br />

<strong>the</strong> reader is normally presented with <strong>the</strong> puzzle and all of <strong>the</strong><br />

clues, and is encouraged to solve <strong>the</strong> mystery before <strong>the</strong> solution<br />

is revealed in a dramatic climax.<br />

[...]

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