{"product_id":"book-dghm","title":"American Sherlock","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDeath in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Not since \u003ci\u003eDevil in the White City\u003c\/i\u003e has a book told such a harrowing tale\"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on years of research and thousands of never-before-published primary source materials, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sherlock \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures 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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50138484113712,"sku":"BDdghm","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dghm-cover_0d1fe4c0-7e5e-4d3d-b70f-fa0127439218.jpg?v=1758147969","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dghm","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}