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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, was also the first Crime Scene Investigator. Based on a real surgeon, Holmes was a scientist who used chemistry, bloodstains, and minute traces of evidence to solve the crime. How Sherlock Changed The World details the impact and legacy of the most famous crime fighter in history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1908 an elderly woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater--a Jewish cardsharp--who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. Over the years he scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, and police diaries, meticulously...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Detective Murdoch and his team tackle cases involving a seemingly invisible man, the political killing of a French diplomat, a possible alien invasion, and one of their own suspected of murder. Along the way, they encounter the greatest minds of the time, including architect Frank Lloyd Wright, entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, and inventor Nikola Tesla.
64) One fatal flaw
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in an explosive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Triple Jeopardy. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Winningly clever and playful, this acclaimed Canadian series returns with new mysteries set in Edwardian-era Toronto. In Season Nine, Detective William Murdoch and his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden, plan their dream home; Constable Crabtree faces dire consequences for his decisions; and Dr. Emily Grace experiences a personal crisis. Meanwhile, Inspector Brackenreid endures an eccentric houseguest, and a new morgue cleaner turned lab attendant brings fresh...
67) What harms you
Author
Series
Locard Institute volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic research center where experts from around the world come together to confront and solve the world's most challenging and perplexing crimes. When Dr. Ellie Carr arrives for her first day as an instructor at the prestigious facility, the buildings glimmer amid the brilliant fall foliage on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. But within hours a colleague, Dr. Barbara Wright, is found dead on the floor...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes and made it her life's work. Best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dioramas that appear charming-until you notice the macabre little details: an overturned chair,...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the 20th century, Detective William Murdoch solves Toronto2s trickiest cases with scientific insight and ingenuity in this award-winning mystery series. From flying early aircraft to infiltrating nudist communities, consulting with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to helping a young Winston Churchill, Murdoch has always been a man ahead of his time. In Season Six, he also confronts legal and social challenges to be with his love, pathologist-turned-psychiatrist...
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Detective Murdoch continues his inventive detective work with Ogden's unflinching support even after an investigation leads him to a family member that he never knew about.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Days before Christmas in turn-of-the-century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch is called to investigate a daring train robbery. When witnesses insist the culprit exhibited super-human abilities, Constable Crabtree realizes the robber bears a striking resemblance to the title character of his new graphic novel, Jumping Jack.
Series
Publisher
[Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The two-hour Christmas special, has Murdoch and the team investigating the host of a Christmas charity gala for sick children after he is killed, and all the presents he was going to give away are stolen. When witnesses report hearing a wild animal near the scene, Crabtree suspects the legendary creature Krampus is the culprit.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A reopening of one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time as a team of expert investigators employs state-of-the-art forensic and behavioral science techniques in an effort to determine what really happened to Charles Lindbergh's baby, and why.
Series
Publisher
CBS DVD / Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When multiple bombs incite terror in Las Vegas, the shockwaves reach far and wide. Former CSI head Gil Grissom responds to the call of duty while FBI Agent Catherine Willows rushes back to her old hunting grounds. In his final Vegas case, lead investigator D.B. Russell helps unravel the fiendish web of evidence. The case turns personal as seasoned pro Sara Sidle navigates her history with Grissom.
77) Death's door
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"One hot August day in 1994, 75 holidaymakers are ferried to an uninhabited island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 74 return alive. A young man has been stabbed and left to bleed to death in the island's surf. The case is never solved. Twenty years later, the new chief constable decides the murder is ripe for a re-evaluation using state-of-the-art forensics. DI Peter Shaw is in charge of the case and summons all 75 original suspects to a mass DNA...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Cutting-edge Victorian science meets cunningly plotted mystery in this award-winning Canadian TV drama. William Murdoch is a detective in Toronto in 1895, using new forensic techniques like fingerprinting and psychological profiling. He crosses paths with famous figures including Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells.
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the fourteenth gripping season, from a serial slaughter and arson to mysterious disappearances and cannibal killings, lead investigator D.B. Russell uses science to shed light on the darkest crimes. With the help of blood-work expert Julie Finlay and veteran investigators Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle and Greg Sanders, the evidence never slips through the cracks.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the 19th century criminal poisoning with arsenic was frighteningly easy. For a few pence and with few questions asked, it was possible to buy enough poison to kill off an entire family, hence arsenic's popular name: the Inheritor's Powder. Yet if poisoning was easy, it was a notoriously difficult crime to prove. This is the story behind how an infamous 19th century murder investigation changed forever the way poisoners (particularly arsenic poisoners)...
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