Argentina Hotels Travel - The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
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Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.1
EAN: 9780425215593
ISBN: 0425215598
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2007-08-07
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Updated with new material, this collection vividly depicts the horrendous crimes, colorful detectives, and grueling investigations that shaped the science of forensics. In concise, fascinating detail, Colin Evans shows how far forensic science has come from Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. No crime in this book is ordinary, and many of the perpetrators are notorious: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, John List, Bruno Hauptmann, Jeffrey Macdonald, and Wayne Williams among others. Along with the cases solved, fifteen forensic techniques are covered- including fingerprinting, ballistics, toxicology, DNA analysis, and psychological profiling, methods that have increased the odds that today's technosleuths will get the bad guys, clear the innocent-and bring justice to the victims and their families.
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Summary: Entertaining if disturbing...
Comment: Hard to put down at times. A splendid view of the way crime investigation has evolved over the last hundred years, milestoned with these landmark investigations. Beware though, some of these cases may have you looking at your neighbors in a new way.
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Summary: Entertaining to read, short for real insight
Comment: This is a good book for the reader who wants to read about some real life crime stories and how they are solved.
Also a useful read for someone looking for a good real crime story, to buy ANOTHER book to read further about it.
Personally I found this book entertaining and read it with interest, because i mostly get bored with a crime story that covers a whole book, that goes on and on about what the neighbor' s wife told the police about what her husband told her that he saw and all the not-so-useful-facts.
Beware though that the story for each crime is real short, it mostly covers the forensics point of view of how a crime was solved.
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Summary: The Evaluation
Comment: The casebook of Forensic Detection is a very detailed book with great description.My daughter enjoyed it very much.
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Summary: Casebook of Forensic Detection
Comment: The book is very complete in the author's normal style. The cases are sorted according to forensic evidence type. Most of the cases are pretty old though.
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Summary: Kept my daughter interested
Comment: I bought this one along with another forensics book when she first started showing an interest in forensics. The other book failed where this one succeeded. The material was written well enough to catch her interest, and the stories were well told. As far as forensic detail, she said it was a little lacking, but that it was still fun to read and kept her interested in the subject. If you're looking for textbook type writing, this isn't it. It's not a research tool. But it is fun, and it should make for a good read if you like the nuts and bolts of how the science helped solve crimes.
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