Editing Fingerprint (section)

=== Mark Twain ===
[[Mark Twain]]'s memoir ''[[Life on the Mississippi]]'' (1883), notable mainly for its account of the author's time on the river, also recounts parts of his later life and includes [[tall tale]]s and stories allegedly told to him. Among them is an involved, melodramatic account of a murder in which the killer is identified by a thumbprint.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/245 |title=The Project Gutenberg EBook of Life On The Mississippi |author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |access-date=November 24, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013070324/http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/245 |archive-date=October 13, 2011 }}</ref> Twain's novel ''[[Pudd'nhead Wilson]]'', published in 1893, includes a courtroom drama that turns on fingerprint identification.