The attention of the Soviet reader is offered a new translation of the book of the West German writer Jürgen Torvald, published by Progress Publishing House in 1974 under the title 100 Years of Forensics. Its current name, "The Age of Forensics," allows us to more accurately convey the author's idea permeating the whole book that only in the second half of the last century did the heyday, the "century" of forensics begin. The literal translation of the German title of the book - "The Age of Detectives" - could only be misleading, because readers would most likely assume that it is about the heyday of a very specific literary genre associated with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Conan Doyle and their followers, or that the book describes the adventures of detectives.