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Crime scenes United States History 20th century Criminal investigation United States History 20th century Criminologists United States Biography Forensic sciences United States History Forensic sciences United States History 20th century Forensic scientists United States Biography Heinrich, Edward Oscar 1881-1953 Lee, Frances Glessner 1878-1962Dawson, Kate Winkler
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020