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Colin Evans

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Colin Evans is the author of 17 books dealing with forensics and true crime. His fascination with the murkier side of human nature began while he was still in school. Hours spent in library archives researching contemporary newspaper accounts about "Jack the Ripper" (no, he doesn't have any clues to the killer's identity, and he seriously doubts that anyone else does, either) got him started and it's really never stopped since then.

He was living in America when his first book was published in 1993, and since that time he's gone on to become one of the foremost writers dealing with the history and development of forensic science. ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 2,957 ratings · 307 reviews · 77 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes 3.89 avg rating — 904 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI 4.10 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 3.78 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever 3.56 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killer Doctors 3.70 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valentino Affair: The Jazz Age Murder Scandal That Shocked New York Society and Gripped the World 3.42 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slaughter on a Snowy Morn: A Tale of Murder, Corruption and the Death Penalty Case That Revolutionised the American Courtroom 3.78 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Question of Evidence: The Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies, from Napoleon to O.J. 3.54 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder Two: The Second Casebook of Forensic Detection 3.72 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing of Georgie Moore: A True-Life Victorian Mystery 3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Other members of the Guglielmi family lit candles of celebration. Putting an ocean between them and this embarrassing spendthrift was the answer to all their prayers.”
― Colin Evans, The Valentino Affair: The Jazz Age Murder Scandal That Shocked New York Society and Gripped the World

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“Mostly this was due to the so-called “unwritten law,” a murky legal concept that every attorney knew existed yet few would admit to having adopted. In essence, it granted women, especially wives, the emotional license to kill any errant male with little fear of retribution.”
― Colin Evans, The Valentino Affair: The Jazz Age Murder Scandal That Shocked New York Society and Gripped the World

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“Celia Coleman and two other black witnesses should be “tied in a bag . . . and thrown into the river.”5 Such vicious bigotry was part and parcel of acceptable courtroom strategy at this time, and it was commonly agreed that Mrs. Carman’s team of high-priced lawyers had pulled off a legal miracle.”
― Colin Evans, The Valentino Affair: The Jazz Age Murder Scandal That Shocked New York Society and Gripped the World

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