More Forensics and Fiction

2012-04-01

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Author: D P Lyle
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
ISBN: 1605423971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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

2012

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Author: D. P. Lyle
Publisher: Medallion PressInc
ISBN: 9781605423944
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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

2015-07-07

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Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191053
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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

1999

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Author: Ronald R. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521527620
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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.

Cracking More Cases

2004

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Author: Henry C. Lee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Considered by many to be the greatest forensic criminalist in the world, Dr. Lee describes in intimate detail his work in personally investigating five notorious murder cases, including the Skakel-Moxley case and the JonBenet Ramsey case.

Blood Spatter

2016-08-01

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Author: Geoff Symon
Publisher: Evil MasterMind, LLC
ISBN: 9781945043116
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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.

The Coroner

2020

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Author: Jennifer Graeser Dornbush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781335299680
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 328

"Her estranged father's sudden heart attack was the only thing that could bring Dr. Emily Hartford back to her rural hometown of Freeport, Michigan. She certainly didn't expect to temporarily replace him as town medical examiner. Or to discover that state senator's daughter Julie Dobson didn't die from a tragic equestrian accident but from skillfully disguised murder. Now, to keep a promise to Julie's stricken younger sister, Emily will delve into the ugly truths behind Julie's not-so-charmed life - secrets that reach from Freeport's wealthiest elite to its drug-dealing underground. And when Emily rattles one skeleton too many, she must race to untangle a web of cheating, jealousy and vicious rivalry that could bury her too deep to survive ..."--Back cover.

Teaching Crime Fiction

2018-07-18

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Author: Charlotte Beyer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319906089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

More than perhaps any other genre, crime fiction invites debate over the role of popular fiction in English studies. This book offers lively original essays on teaching crime fiction written by experienced British and international scholar teachers, providing vital insight into this diverse genre through a series of compelling subjects. Taking its starting-point in pedagogical reflections and classroom experiences, the book explores methods for teaching students to develop their own critical perspectives as crime fiction critics, the impact of feminism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism on crime fiction, crime fiction and film, the crime short story, postgraduate perspectives, and more.

A History of Forensic Science

2015-11-19

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Author: Alison Adam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135005591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first part of the twentieth century. This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. This period was central to the formation of a separate discipline of forensic science with a distinct professional identity and this book charts the strategies of the new forensic scientists to gain an authoritative voice in the courtroom and to forge a professional identity in the space between forensic medicine, scientific policing, and independent expert witnessing. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did. This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology, the history of forensic science, science and technology studies and the history of policing.

The OC

2021-10-05

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Author: D. P. Lyle
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 1608094618
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Thrill-a-minute crime fiction—infused with wry humor Restaurant owner and former professional baseball player Jake Longly is hoping for a few weeks of fun with Nicole Jamison in the warm Orange County, CA sun—The OC, baby. After that, they'll be on their way to LA for the filming of Nicole's sure-to-be-a-hit screenplay. On arrival, they discover that Nicole's friend Megan Weatherly, a local TV reporter, has picked up an anonymous stalker. Megan downplays any real danger, but her new intern Abby, as well as Jake and Nicole, don't agree. Bit by bit, as the harassment escalates and the shadowy man invades Megan's world, Jake calls in the big guns from back home in Alabama: Ray and Pancake. But will Ray's military black ops experience and Pancake's technical skills be enough to expose the predator in time? The stalker is no fool and likely has a predatory history. He makes no mistakes and manages to cover his trail completely. So, how do you identify and locate the untraceable? How do you protect Megan from a potentially lethal phantom? Suddenly the sunshine and safety of The OC seem more facade than reality. Jake and crew must punch through that facade and dig into the dark world of celebrity stalking. The clock is ticking. 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