Surveys the methods of looking into the future from "I Ching" to Tarot, from palmistry to crystal ball, and looks closely at the testimony of men and women - from Nostradamus to Jeane Dixon - who seem to have read the signs sucessfully.
This book, containing real-life cases of deduction, based on forensic science, looks at the formation of the famous law-enforcement agencies and gives a background to the way they have solved crimes over the course of a complete century.