Biography
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
2020·320 pages
True story of Edward Oscar Heinrich, pioneer of American forensic science, told through the high-profile murder cases he helped solve.
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True story of Edward Oscar Heinrich, pioneer of American forensic science, told through the high-profile murder cases he helped solve.
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A gripping historical true crime narrative that "reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself" (Karen Abbott, author of The Ghosts of Eden Park), American Sherlock recounts the riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. 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...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Alleged sexual assault discussed in Fatty Arbuckle case context
Violence & gore
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Murder cases with blood evidence, forensic wound detail, and crime scenes
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic elements
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Societal issues and shifting public views of forensics and justice
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Murder victims; sexual assault allegations in the Arbuckle trials
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