{"product_id":"american-sherlock","title":"American Sherlock","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.","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67618599731443,"sku":"9780525539568","price":29.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/7432\/5312\/files\/imageloader_ae97e227-ce9e-4c1b-b3fa-55c8c77f701a.jpg?v=1790880223","url":"https:\/\/letterpressplay.com\/en-ca\/products\/american-sherlock","provider":"Letterpress PLAY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}