American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI / Kate Winkler Dawson.
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. Heinrich was one of the nation's first expert witnesses, working in a time when the turmoil of Prohibition led to sensationalized crime reporting and only a small, systematic study of evidence. -- adapted from dust jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525539551
- ISBN: 0525539557
- ISBN: 9780525539568
- ISBN: 0525539565
- Physical Description: 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-313) and index. |
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| Subject: | Heinrich, Edward Oscar, 1881-1953. Criminologists > United States > Biography. Forensic scientists > United States > Biography. Forensic sciences > United States > History. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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