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Locks, Safes, and Security: An International Police Reference Reference: Marc W. Tobias, Locks, Safes, and Security: An International Police Reference, ISBN: 0 398 07079 2, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 2000, 1438 pages, $199.95
It is not that often we see any published information useful for lock and key examination. It's even a more rare occasion when a major and extensive work by an well known specialist in this field is published. That's why we've noticed with pleasure the most recent monumental offering on the subject of locks, safes and security which just came off the press at Charles C. Thomas Publisher in the form of a monumental volume, Locks, Safes, and Security: An International Police Reference by Marc W. Tobias. This is a second edition of the work first published some thirty years ago, in 1971, by the same author and publisher.
The latest edition of Locks, Safes, and Security contains forty chapters, with over 1400 pages of detailed information about locks and safes: their construction,...