American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi by Dawson, Kate Winkler
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi by Dawson, Kate Winkler

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi

A gripping historical true crime narrative that reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself (Karen Abbott,...
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Author: Kate Winkler Dawson
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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi by Dawson, Kate Winkler

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi

$40.78
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi by Dawson, Kate Winkler

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi

$40.78
Author: Kate Winkler Dawson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A gripping historical true crime narrative that reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself (Karen Abbott, author of The Ghosts of Eden Park), American Sherlock recounts the riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation.

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 courtroom evidence. His work, though not without its serious--some would say fatal--flaws, changed the course of American criminal investigation.

Based on years of research and thousands of never-before-published primary source materials, American Sherlock 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.

Author: Kate Winkler Dawson
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780525539568

About the Author
Kate Winkler Dawson is a seasoned documentary producer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, WCBS News, ABC News Radio, PBS NewsHour, and Nightline. She is the host of Tenfold More Wicked, a historical true crime podcast on the Exactly Right network. Her first book was Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City. She teaches journalism at The University of Texas at Austin.
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