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Final Proof (Hardcover)
Rodrigues Ottolengui
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R1,521
R1,440
Discovery Miles 14 400
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Rodrigues Ottolengui was the leading dental editor of the early
20th century, an orthodontist, a successful novelist, and a
respected entomologist. Neither Angle-trained nor a specialist,
Ottolengui's heritage was both in dentistry and journalism, and he
was to fulfill both these callings admirably. He was born in
Charleston, SC, on March 15, 1861, 4 weeks before the outbreak of
the Civil War and in the first state to secede. His father was a
newspaperman and playwright, and his mother was an author.
Ottolengui practiced the dental profession for over 50 years. Early
in his career he began to read detective stories; because, as he
said, "these stories help to increase the analytical quality of the
mind." Then he started writing stories in this genre and ultimately
wrote 6 novels. Ottolengui's first novel, THE ARTIST IN CRIME, was
translated into French, German, and Polish. In PHOENIX OF CRIME, he
described how a dead person could be identified by his teeth. Five
years later, a corpse floating in the river near Yonkers, NY, was
identified by the sheriff of that county who had read the book and
had a dentist chart her teeth. Thus was born the science of
forensic dentistry. The SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE called
Ottolengui "the dental counterpart... of England's physician crime
solver, Dr Conan Doyle." Ellery Queen described him as "one of the
most neglected authors in the entire history of the detective
story."
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