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Meet David Nunes Carvalho, the Jewish Investigator Who Rivaled Sherlock Holmes

JL;DR SUMMARY David Nunes Carvalho, a Jewish investigator renowned for his expertise in ink and handwriting, played a crucial role in unlocking complex criminal mysteries long before DNA evidence was available. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureDreyfus AffairSherlock HolmesDavid Nunes CarvalhoInk AnalysisHandwriting ExpertiseForgery DetectionClaire CarvalhoForensic ScienceCrime Investigation

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
"Born in Philadelphia in 1845, he was the oldest child of Solomon Nunes Carvalho, an artist and photographer who, in 1853, participated in John Charles Frmonts fifth and final expedition through the Rocky Mountains."
New York, United States
"It is indeed a fact that Sir Conan Doyle stated in a lecture in New York that Mr. Carvalhos powers exceeded those given to Sherlock Holmes, and were so startling that he would never dare put them into fiction!"
Houston, Texas, United States
"Based on this testimony, Rices lawyer and valet were imprisoned, and his fortune was used to establish Rice University in Houston."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"One exception is the anecdote of the Dreyfus Affair, which begins with father and daughter traveling one day in 1896 into Manhattan to buy a hat, and stopping into a French restaurant where David happened to see a page of the French newspaper Le Matin that reproduced the document that was used to convict Dreyfus."
Bayswater, New York, United States
"David wrote to Madame Dreyfus and, months later, he was visited by two emissaries at his home near Bayswater, Long Island."
France
"Alfred Dreyfus might have ended his days in the penal colony to which he had been condemned as a traitor to France."
San Quentin, California, United States
"The two had their face-to-face encounter after Becker was caught and imprisoned at San Quentin, and David traveled to visit him."

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