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More Forensics and Fiction

Author : D P Lyle

Publisher : Medallion Media Group

Page : 413 pages

File Size : 18,53 MB

Release : 2012-04-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1605423971

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This compilation of medical and forensic science questions from crime writers around the world provides insight into medical and forensic science as well as a glimpse into the writer’s creative mind. How do hallucinogenic drugs affect a blind person? Will snake venom injected into fruit cause death? How would you perform CPR in a helicopter? What happens when someone swallows razor blades? How long does it take blood to dry? Can DNA be obtained from a half-eaten bagel? D. P. Lyle, MD, answers these and many more intriguing questions. The book is a useful and entertaining resource for writers and screenwriters, helping them find the information they need to frame a situation and write a convincing description. TV viewers, readers who enjoy crime fiction, and those who want to know more about forensic science can keep up with the news and understand the science behind criminal investigation. From traumatic injuries to the coroner’s office, the questions and answers are divided into five parts, making it a compendium of the incredible information that lies within the world of medicine and forensics.



More Forensics and Fiction

Author : D. P. Lyle

Publisher : Medallion PressInc

Page : 448 pages

File Size : 29,8 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9781605423944

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Answers medical and forensic questions about such topics as doctors and hospitals, poisons and drugs, police and the crime scene, coroners and autopsies, traumatic injuries and illnesses, and the crime lab.



Forensics

Author : Val McDermid

Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Page : 350 pages

File Size : 14,81 MB

Release : 2015-07-07

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 0802191053

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Bestselling author of Broken Ground “offers fascinating glimpses” into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day (The Boston Globe). The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces, forensic scientists unlock the mysteries of the past and serve justice. In Forensics, international bestselling crime author Val McDermid guides readers through this field, drawing on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research, and her own experiences on the scene. Along the way, McDermid discovers how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine one’s time of death; how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer; and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist were able to uncover the victims of a genocide. Prepare to travel to war zones, fire scenes, and autopsy suites as McDermid comes into contact with both extraordinary bravery and wickedness, tracing the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.



Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Author : Ronald R. Thomas

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 10,30 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Law

ISBN : 9780521527620

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This is a book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the invention of the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America. Ronald R. Thomas examines the criminal body as a site of interpretation and enforcement in a wide range of fictional examples, from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie. He is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the 'devices' - fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors - with which he discovers the truth and establishes his expertise, and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre. This is an interdisciplinary project, framing readings of literary texts with an analysis of contemporaneous developments in criminology, the rules of evidence, and modern scientific accounts of identity.



Encyclopedia of Forensic Science

Author : Barbara Gardner Conklin

Publisher : Greenwood

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,39 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Crime

ISBN : 9781573561709

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"The entries touch on the disciplines of criminal justice, criminal and civil law, literature, and history to provide a broad base for understanding the diverse ways forensic science affects our society."--BOOK JACKET.



The Christopher Killer

Author : Alane Ferguson

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 37,12 MB

Release : 2008-02-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780142408117

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On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.



Blood Spatter

Author : Geoff Symon

Publisher : Evil MasterMind, LLC

Page : 166 pages

File Size : 32,87 MB

Release : 2016-08-01

Category : Law

ISBN : 9781945043116

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Book Description

Blood Spatter offers authors an accurate and accessible gateway into the world of blood analysis. This illustrated guidebook offers a one-stop, easy-to-understand reference which draws on Geoff Symon's expertise as a forensic investigator to cover real-world procedures and practices of crime and its investigations for writers of all genres.



Forensic Science for Writers

Author : Phill Jones

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 42,19 MB

Release : 2012-07-25

Category :

ISBN : 9781475267204

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Do you want forensics to play a starring role in your fiction, but you find that you're not quite sure what it's all about? Forensic Science for Writers reveals the secrets behind forensic science technology. You'll explore how investigators analyze blood, DNA, fingerprints, hair, documents, ammunition, corpses, and other physical evidence. From the code-breaking tricks of the cyber-sleuth to the traditional procedures of the autopsy room, you'll investigate the strengths and weaknesses of forensic science. Forensic Science for Writers is not just about science. You'll learn how to use forensics to create plot twists. And you'll see how best-selling authors successfully incorporated forensic science in their stories. You'll also learn common misconceptions about forensic analysis that plague films and novels - the types of errors that you'll want to avoid in your own writing. This book is based upon an online course that was offered through colleges and other organizations. More than 800 students took the course, including writers, schoolteachers, law enforcement personnel, and attorneys. "As an already successful writer," one student said, "I am sure I will refer to these lessons over the coming years as I continue to write novels."



Autopsies

Author : Geoff Symon

Publisher : Evil MasterMind, LLC

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 48,36 MB

Release : 2017-06-28

Category :

ISBN : 9781945043154

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Autopsies is a user-friendly, illustrated reference that digs into all things posthumous and postmortem. Whether you're writing about dissection or resurrection, this guidebook covers it all from cadaver to slab as an easy-to-understand resource for dead-on storytelling.



Rigged

Author : D. P. Lyle

Publisher : Oceanview Publishing

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 36,1 MB

Release : 2020-05-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1608093395

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Love triangle—motive for double murder? First loves are never forgotten. Ever. Certainly not for Tommy "Pancake" Jeffers. His first-kiss, sixth-grade love, Emily, who he has not seen since grammar school, is sliding toward divorce in the artsy Gulf Coast town of Fairhope, Alabama. Longly Investigations has been charged with looking into the finances involved. When Emily doesn't appear for their nervously anticipated meeting, Pancake's radar goes on high alert. Her body, along with that of Jason––one of two guys she has been dating––is found murdered, execution-style, Pancake calls in Jake, Nicole, and Ray. Who would have done this? Could it be the soon-to-be ex, who has an ironclad alibi; the other guy Emily was seeing––jealousy being a motive for harm; or do the drugs found in Jason's pocket indicate a drug-related hit? That world yields a host of suspects. As they peel back the layers of this idyllic community, dark secrets come to light and convoluted motives and methods of murder are revealed. Perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich While all of the novels in the Jake Longly Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Deep Six A-List Sunshine State Rigged The OC (coming October 2021)