Books
February, 1989
It is always a good season for crime, but this month brings a particularly rich collection of transgressions to the literary docket. Joseph Wambaugh's The Blooding (Morrow) is a detailed nonfiction study of the first murder case ever to be solved through "genetic fingerprinting" (comparing DNA in blood or, in this case, semen samples). In addition to the historical and scientific interest of the case, it is told with such passionate fascination for the personalities, such careful unfol...
