Dutch Sherlock

Maurice Aalders is Professor of Forensic Biophysics at Amsterdam UMC, the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. He is co-director (with Arian van Asten) of the Co van Ledden Hulsebosch Center. He is fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering and has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles, teaches biomedical optics to physics students, and various physics topics for students in forensic science and medicine. Arian van Asten is professor in Forensic Analytical Chemistry and On-Scene Chemical Analysis at the van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) since 2018. Together with professor Maurice Aalders he leads the CLHC, the Netherlands Center for Forensic Science and Medicine. He has (co-)authored over 80 scientific publications on (forensic) analytical chemistry and wrote the academic course book Chemical Analysis for Forensic Evidence that was published in 2022.

• Introduction, About the Author: The Work and Life of Co van Ledden Hulsebosch, About the Translation and the Use of ChatGPT, About the Authors of the Epilogues, Forty Years of Detective Work by Co van Ledden Hulsebosch, Foreword, Introduction, 1. My First Expertise, 2. Treasure Hunt in the Ashes in a Stove, 3. As an Expert for the Court in Ghent, 4. Disappearance of a Batch of Diamonds, 5. Peculiar Traces of Dust, 6. Rice Powder, 7. Sixty-seven Thousand Guilders in Securities Recovered, 8. The Murder of the Notary C. S. in Gorinchem, 9. A Political Attack?, 10. Murder in the Celebesstraat, 11. Theft at a Bank Solved by a Police Dog, 12. He Had the Silent Witness “in Hand”, 13. The Murder of the Cat Farmer, 14. Shoe Wax, 15. Amateur Snapshots as Evidence, 16. “Visiting Cards”!, 17. One Hair Made the Difference, 18. Murder or Suicide?, 19. Petty Thief, 20. Simulated Robbery, 21. Who Bears the Cost of the Damage?, 22. Poison!, 23. How the Mysterious Thefts in Professor Saltet’s Laboratory Were Solved, 24. A Lame Student Joke, for Which Heavy Penalties Were Paid, 25. The Dishonest Postal Worker, 26. How the First Lamp for Ultraviolet Ray Investigation Came to Our Country, 27. The Treacherous Glass Splinter, 28. The Corpse in the Suitcase, 29. The Severed Head of a Woman, 30. Dust Provided the Evidence, 31. Assisting Criminal Justice in Belgium, 32. The Anonymous Letter, 33. Fine Sleuthing by Dogs!, 34. The Murder of Tania Schovers, 35. Bombs, 36. Cigarettes with Water Damage, 37. Ill-fated Bloodstains, 38. Arsonists, 39. To Whom Does This Pocketknife Belong? Whose Key Chain Is This?, 40. The Pickpocket, 41. He Had It in Writing, 42. A Burglar with … a Brain, 43. The Evidence-Providing Phonograph Cylinder, 44. Restoration and Reconstruction of Documents, 45. Charred Papers, 46. Emergency Relief, 47. Yellow Powder, 48. “Souches,” or Physical Fits, 49. What One Little Blood Spatter Proved, 50. How the Stolen Jewels Were Recovered, 51. Counterfeiters, 52. The Clever Swindler, 53. Faked or Actual Theft of Mail, Epilogue