{"product_id":"american-sherlock-murder-forensics-and-the-birth-of-american-csi-539551","title":"American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDeath in the Air\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e (\"Not since \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDevil in the White City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e has a book told such a harrowing tale\"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBerkeley, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeinrich 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on years of research and thousands of never-before-published primary source materials, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Sherlock \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecaptures 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Royal Gift Land","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42925320110169,"sku":"9780525539551","price":14.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0206\/3705\/files\/9780525539551.jpg?v=1766071474","url":"https:\/\/royalgiftland.com\/fr\/products\/american-sherlock-murder-forensics-and-the-birth-of-american-csi-539551","provider":"Royal Gift Land","version":"1.0","type":"link"}