Bibliograph

American Sherlock, murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI, Kate Winkler Dawson

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American Sherlock, murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI, Kate Winkler Dawson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-313) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American Sherlock

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Kate Winkler Dawson

Sub title

murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI

Summary

Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural. . . . Based on years of research and thousands of never-before-published primary source materials, American Sherlock captures the life of the man who pioneered the science our legal system now relies upon--as well as the limits of those techniques and the very human experts who wield them

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