American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI / Kate Winkler Dawson.
American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI / Kate Winkler Dawson.
American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI / Kate Winkler Dawson.
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New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2021
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G 2021/1018
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English
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325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Tales from the archive: pistols, jawbones, and love poetry -- A bloody mess: the case of Allene Lamson's bath, part I -- Genius: the case of Oscar Heinrich's demons -- Heathen: the case of the Baker's handwriting, part I -- Pioneer: the case of the baker's handwriting, part II -- Damnation: the cas...
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New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2021
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First G.P. Putnam's Sons trade paperback edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2021
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"From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with beakers, microscopes, and hundreds upon hundreds of books sat Edward Oscar Heinrich, America's first forensic scientists. Working in a time when the turmoil of Prohibition led to sensationalized crime reporting and only a small, systematic study of evidence, Heinrich spearheaded the invention of a my...
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American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI / Kate Winkler Dawson.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-313) and index.
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©2020
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G 2021/1018
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74VKaOq2xozy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaOq2xozy
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ISBN
9780525539568
DDC
363.25092
MMS ID
991024375719702626
