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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
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Scotland Yard had Sherlock Holmes. However, Kate Winkler Dawson shows us in American Sherlock that we, too, had someone who knew all too well about deductive reasoning. Our favorite true crime books read like fiction and emphasize that “truth is stranger than fiction.” The story of Edward Oscar Heinrich is exactly that. Elementary, one might say!
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.
Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiositiesbeakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of bookssat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Ho...
Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiositiesbeakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of bookssat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Ho...
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