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

by Kate Winkler Dawson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525539557
• ISBN13: 9780525539551
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"