American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CsiA gripping historical true crime narrative that reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself (Karen Abbott, author of The Ghosts of Eden Park), American Sherlock recounts the riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. Berkeley, 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