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Title: A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes by M. Lee Goff ISBN: 0-674-00727-1 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A True Forensic Lover's Dee-Light
Comment: A wonderful triumph for M. Lee Goff! Yet another forensic masterpiece that I did not want to end. His comforting, empathetic, thorough coverage of the material was engrossing and tantalizing. I hope he will grace us with another treasure such as this. His success is well worth the "gross-out" factor (others - not moi). Very readable and yet mesmorizing.
Rating: 5
Summary: a "must read" in the category
Comment: This book succeeds at all levels. He has hard science a layperson can follow. He has history as he was in on the process of forensic entymology becoming a recognized field. He has case histories. He has thoughts on being a forensic entymologist. ("I know a life can be radically changed, even ended by my testimony.") And he has funny parts (really) that you can buttonhole your family to read to them aloud. Goff seems an honorable and compassionate man. I want to read his thoughts. I've read any number of books on forensic science for the lay reader so it isn't often anymore that I learn so much new. I had not read one on bugs before and recommend this one with enthusiasm.
Rating: 4
Summary: Autobiographical explanation of forensic entomology
Comment: Goff is a forensic entomologist, basically someone who figures out how long someone has been dead by the insects on, in, or under the body. The book is a tale both historical and technical about the subject: historical in that it provides many examples of his work over the years, and technical in that he provides a good overview of just what he's looking for-which insects he expects to appear at what time.
His style is clear and frequently understated, as when he relates that some of his colleagues were somewhat put out when it was found that one of his labs did not vent to the outside as it was supposed to.
Anyhow, this is a fascinating if somewhat grisly read about an unusual but surprisingly significant subject. Just don't read it when you're eating!
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Title: Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist by Zakaria Erzinclioglu ISBN: 0312287747 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death by Jessica Snyder Sachs ISBN: 0738207713 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Dead Men Do Tell Tales : The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by Michael Browning, William R. Maples ISBN: 0385479689 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Forensic Casebook : The Science of Crime Scene Investigation by Ngaire E. Genge ISBN: 0345452038 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab/the Body Farm/Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by William M. Bass, Jon Jefferson, Bill Bass ISBN: 0399151346 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 23 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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