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Edwin W. Teale, "Now Real Detectives Beat Sherlock Holmes," Popular Science Monthly, August 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Now Real Detectives Beat Sherlock Holmes," Popular Science Monthly, August 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Now Real Detectives Beat Sherlock Holmes," Popular Science Monthly, August 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Hidden Crime Clues Bared by Chemist's Magic," Popular Science Monthly, November 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Hidden Crime Clues Bared by Chemist's Magic," Popular Science Monthly, November 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Hidden Crime Clues Bared by Chemist's Magic," Popular Science Monthly, November 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Weird Unseen Rays Trap Master Crooks," Popular Science Monthly, October 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Weird Unseen Rays Trap Master Crooks," Popular Science Monthly, October 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Weird Unseen Rays Trap Master Crooks," Popular Science Monthly, October 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Weird Unseen Rays Trap Master Crooks," Popular Science Monthly, October 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Hidden Crime Clues Bared by Chemist's Magic," Popular Science Monthly, November 1931
Edwin W. Teale, "Hidden Crime Clues Bared by Chemist's Magic," Popular Science Monthly, November 1931
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Utopian forensics

In the 19th and 20th centuries, glowing newspaper and magazine accounts of forensic technologies, real and imaginary, fueled public support for scientific crime detection. Edwin W. Teale's series of illustrated articles, published in Popular Science Monthly in 1931, conveys some of the enthusiasm for scientific crime detection. "Working slowly, painstakingly, utilizing every branch of science at hand," Teale rhapsodizes, "modern man-hunters are arriving at astonishing solutions in baffling crimes. Their work is analytical, methodical; but their results are amazing, magical."