Blood, Sweat and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, a Pioneer Forensics Investigator

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Heralded internationally as "Canada's Sherlock Holmes," John Vance was an innovative and pioneering forensic investigator who was so successful at solving criminal cases, he was the subject of numerous attempts on his life. Over the course of forty-two years beginning in the 1930s, Vance helped police detectives in British Columbia to determine murder from suicide as well as solve hit-and-runs, safe-crackings, and some of the most sensational murder cases of the twentieth century.

Eve Lazarus is a journalist with a penchant for criminal history. Her previous books include Cold Case Vancouver.