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Title: Scene of the Crime: A Writer's Guide to Crime-Scene Investigations (Howdunit Series) by Anne Wingate ISBN: 0-89879-518-4 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tempted to gloss over
Comment: Not being a full fledge crime writer, I am always tempted to gloss over scenes that require me to do research in an unfamiluar area. That is what I depend on this series of books to do... fill me in. At three a.m...I just want to know one or two little facts that add realism to a small scene. This book was a very helpful reference guide...who comes first to the scene of a crime. Who ask the questions? Who gathers the clues? You only get so much from watching Murder She Wrote.
Rating: 3
Summary: A fingerprint in the Howdunit series
Comment: Scene of the Crime has lots of facts about fingerprints and examining possible pieces of evidence at a crime scene. I found the sections about identifying remains and what changes the body goes through after death very interesting. I learned a lot of information that will help me in my writing.
On the down side, I did have a hard time focusing on this book. It is very similar to the other books in the Howdunit series, and this is the only reason for a lower rating. However, I do believe that the entire Howdunit Series (I now call it "The Writer's Bible series") could not be complete without this book.
Scene of the Crime may be similar to other books in the series, but it DOES have a lot of knowledge that the other books missed!
Rating: 4
Summary: a useful source
Comment: I found this book to be both interesting and informative and also very useful in writing a crime story. It will definitely give you an idea of how the cops in your story should act at a crime scene and what they should and shouldn't do. The book is also helpful even if your main character isn't a cop at all. I do have a couple of complaints about the book though. For one thing, the author gives way too much detail on some things. Like the fingerprints. The chapters on fingerprints seemed to be aimed more at someone who wants to become a fingerprint expert instead of just writing fiction about them. I found parts of the fingerprint chapters to be extremely boring and I even skipped through a small portion of it. Although some amount of detail can add realism to a story, I really cannot understand why anyone would want to put THAT much detail on fingerprints into a work of fiction. Secondly, the author slips into stories of personal experience several times in the novel. Most of the stories are interesting and could help a writer, but a couple of them just seem to be rambling by the author and really have nothing to add that would help anyone in writing a novel. But despite these complaints, I still found the book to be very useful and, for the most part, very interesting. I would definitely recommend it.
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Title: Just the Facts, Ma'Am: A Writer's Guide to Investigators and Investigation Techniques (Howdunit) by Greg Fallis ISBN: 089879823X Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons (Howdunit Series) by Serita Deborah Stevens, Anne Klarner ISBN: 0898793718 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Crime Writer's Reference Guide: 1001 Tips on Writing the Perfect Murder by Martin Roth ISBN: 0941188493 Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Howdunit: How Crimes Are Committed and Solved (Howdunit) by John Boertlein ISBN: 1582970157 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Cause of Death : A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder and Forensic Medicine (Howdunit Series) by Keith D. Wilson ISBN: 0898795249 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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