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Series
Eyewitness books volume 73
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Explores the many different methods used to solves crimes, covering such topics as criminals, detectives, and forensics.
3) Shutter
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases -- she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Teenager Jacob Hunt has Asperger's syndrome. A forensic science wizard, he follows his scanner to show up at crime scenes and give law enforcement officials his advice. But when his tutor is found dead, he becomes a suspect. Suddenly, his Asperger's traits--not looking people in the eye, tics and twitches--look more like guilt in the view of police.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A history of modern forensic science from the first test for arsenic poisoning in the 1700s to criminal profiling, fingerprinting, blood splatter analysis, DNA evidence, and all the milestones in between"--
"Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part frank memoir of a woman whose first paying job as a schoolgirl was to apprentice in a butcher shop, and part no-nonsense but deeply humane introduction to the reality of death. It is a treat...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1908 an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater -- a Jewish cardsharp -- who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Over the years he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and police diaries, meticulously...
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