"The Criminologist Ashton-Wolfe writing in The Illustrated London News (27 February 1932) said:
"Many of the methods invented by Conan Doyle are today in use in the scientific laboratories. Sherlock Holmes made the study of tobacco ashes his hobby. It was a new idea, but the police at once realized the importance of such specialized knowledge, and now every laboratory has a complete set of tables giving the appearance and composition of the various ashes . . . mud and soil from various districts are also classified much after the manner that Holmes described . . . poisons, hand-writing, stains, dust, footprints, traces of wheels, the shape and position of wounds.. .the theory of cryptograms, all these and many other excellent methods which germinated in Conan Doyle's fertile imagination are now part and parcel of every detective's scientific equipment." "
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Sherlock Holmes: Father of Scientific Crime DetectionFakts laikam ir vairāk patiess, tiesa nemācēšu teikt vai patiešām visas metodes, tomēr ļoti daudzas no tām vēlāk tika izmantotas un noteica lielu lomu kriminālistikas nozares attīstībā ar Šerloka slavas palīdzību.
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