I finally read it this summer and I quite liked it. Funnily enough I read it just after "101 Crimes of the Century" and the overlap was quite interesting. The last part, Facing the 20th century, was also interesting from a different point of view: I just finished reading A Complete History of Jack the Ripper. The book deals with the Whitechapel murders of 1888 and also discusses the crime scene investigation common then, particularly how little photography was used and that fingerprinting had not yet beeen established. ( )

People's face are always interesting. And sometimes surprising, too. Who would have thought that the young Joe Stalin would have been such a dish? ( )