>Dr Zakaria Erzinçlioglu was a practising forensic scientist. He worked on criminal cases (mostly murder) for over twenty years, investigating over five hundred in Britain and abroad. He was formerly Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University and, subsequently, Director of the Forensic Science Research Centre at Durham University. He later became an Honorary Lecturer at London University. One of his books was *Evidence*, a book which looks at the interpretation of evidence in criminal trials and historical events. >>From *The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures* (1997), Mike Ashley, editor