{"product_id":"american-sherlock-kate-winkler-dawson-9780525539568","title":"American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping historical true crime narrative that \"reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself\" (Karen Abbott, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghosts of Eden Park\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sherlock\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Winkler Dawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0525539565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525539568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e G.P. Putnam's Sons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Kate Winkler Dawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053315944703,"sku":"9780525539568","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e4cad2c-ae61-427d-9adb-b24b448cca9e.jpg?v=1685023663","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-sherlock-kate-winkler-dawson-9780525539568","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}