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American Sherlock : Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is American Sherlock : Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI about?
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 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. However with his brilliance, and commanding presence in both the courtroom and at crime scenes, Heinrich spearheaded the invention of a myriad of new forensic tools that police still use today, including blood spatter analysis, ballistics, lie-detector tests, and the use of fingerprints as
Who reads American Sherlock : Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kate Winkler Dawson
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780525539551
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Science
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (1,075 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14