Vždyť je to vražda: Agatha Christie a forenzní vědy – Valentine Carla (2024)

Carla Valentine works with the dead: she's an ordinary girl who knows as much about corpses as she does about cocktails. And while other kids devoured the works of Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter, Carla Valentine was flipping through the pages of Agatha Christie's novels - and this early fascination led her to work as a pathologist in morgues and to study forensic science.
In almost every Agatha Christie story, there is at least one - or more often several - dead bodies, and for young Carla, a curious child who was already fascinated by biology, these stories were the perfect puzzle.
Christie herself, of course, did not speak of "forensic science" in the sense we use today, but each of her investigations is based on a combination of human observation, ingenuity, and actual contemporary science. Agatha Christie was a pioneer of forensic science through her detectives, and the book It's a Murder After All looks at all the insights of one of the most beloved authors of all time through the eyes of a forensic specialist.