| True Stories of Csi: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show Contributor(s): Ramsland, Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425222349 ISBN-13: 9780425222348 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: The bestselling forensic psychologist examines the true crimes that inspired the television smash hit, "C.S.I." Katherine Ramsland follows the evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the phenomenally popular "C.S.I," television franchise, and explores the real-life crimes that inspired them. She also looks into the authenticity of the forensic investigations recreated for the dramatizations, and the painstaking real-life forensic process employed in every one of the actual casesafrom notorious mass-murderer Richard Speck, to the massacre of Buddhist monks in an Arizona Temple, to a baffling case of apparent spontaneous combustion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - Serial Killers - Law | Forensic Science |
| Dewey: 364.109 |
| LCCN: 2008013050 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The bestselling forensic psychologist examines the true crimes that inspired the television smash hit, C.S.I. Katherine Ramsland follows the evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the phenomenally popular C.S.I. television franchise, and explores the real-life crimes that inspired them. She also looks into the authenticity of the forensic investigations recreated for the dramatizations, and the painstaking real-life forensic process employed in every one of the actual cases?from notorious mass-murderer Richard Speck, to the massacre of Buddhist monks in an Arizona Temple, to a baffling case of apparent spontaneous combustion. |