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  Title

  American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI

  Author

  Dawson, Kate Winkler.  

  Publisher:

  G. P. Putnam's Sons,

  Pub date:

  [2020]

  Pages:

  325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :

  ISBN:

  9780525539551

  Item info:

  1 copy available in Adult nonfiction shelves.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9780525539551
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    Call number	Copies	Material	Location
    363.25092 DAW	1	Adult non-fic hardcover	Adult nonfiction shelves

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  American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
  Dawson, Kate Winkler.
  

  Personal Author:

  Dawson, Kate Winkler.

  Title:

  American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI / Kate Winkler Dawson.

  Physical description:

  325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

  Contents:

  Prologue: 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 case of the star's fingerprints, part I -- Indignation: the case of the star's fingerprints, part II -- Double 13: the case of the great train heist -- Bad chemistry: the case of the calculating chemist -- Bits and pieces: the case of Bessie Ferguson's ear -- Triggered: the case of Marty Colwell's gun -- Damned: the case of Allene lamson's Bath, part II.

  Summary:

  "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.

  Summary:

  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 myriad of new forensic tools that police still use today, including blood spatter analysis, ballistics, lie-detector tests, and the use of fingerprints as courtroom evidence. Dawson captures the life of the man who pioneered the science our legal system now relies upon-- as well as the limits of those techniques and the very human experts who wield them. -- adapted from jacket

  Personal subject:

  Heinrich, Edward Oscar, 1881-1953.

  Subject term:

  Criminologists--United States--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Forensic sciences--United States--History.