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Investigating CSI: Inside the Crime Labs of Las Vegas, Miami and New York
This selection of smart, accessible essays covers CSI 's cutting-edge science, intriguing mysteries, and engaging personal dynamics. Essays from experts in the field illuminate such processes as DNA testing, ballistics, crime-scene photography, and autopsy procedure. With pieces that focus on the leads' varying appeals, the history of forensics on television, the show's treatment of alternate sexualities, and whether the incredible attention to detail actually gives criminals an advantage, this anthology provides an in-depth investigation that enriches the viewing experience.
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233 pages, Paperback
First published September 10, 2006
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Donn Cortez
37 books18 followersPseudonyms: Don DeBrandt & DD Barant
Donn Cortez is a pseudonym for Canadian author Don DeBrandt. Born in Saskatchewan, he currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition to North America, his books have been published in Germany, France, Italy, and Russia. His influences include Spider Robinson and John D. MacDonald, among others.
He took a darker turn for The Closer, a hard-edged story about a serial killer hunting other serial killers.
His follow-up, The Man Burns Tonight (set at Burning Man) was more of a classic mystery. This was followed in rapid succession by five CSI: Miami tie-in novels and two CSI: Vegas novels.He has also contributed numerous pop-culture essays to BenBella’s SmartPop anthologies, on subjects such as Angel, Firefly, The Golden Compass, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, King Kong, the X-Men, Star Wars, and Star Trek.
He was the guest editor (as well as a contributor) to the essay anthology Investigating CSI.
Donn Cortez is a pseudonym for Canadian author Don DeBrandt. Born in Saskatchewan, he currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition to North America, his books have been published in Germany, France, Italy, and Russia. His influences include Spider Robinson and John D. MacDonald, among others.
He took a darker turn for The Closer, a hard-edged story about a serial killer hunting other serial killers.
His follow-up, The Man Burns Tonight (set at Burning Man) was more of a classic mystery. This was followed in rapid succession by five CSI: Miami tie-in novels and two CSI: Vegas novels.He has also contributed numerous pop-culture essays to BenBella’s SmartPop anthologies, on subjects such as Angel, Firefly, The Golden Compass, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, King Kong, the X-Men, Star Wars, and Star Trek.
He was the guest editor (as well as a contributor) to the essay anthology Investigating CSI.
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September 18, 2021
The summary for Miami sucks. I mean c'mon whoever wrote the last chapter where did you get your info from official CBS site?
The rest of the book makes me wish I'd read this when I started watching CSI NY way back when. Absolutely brilliant and realistic view of crime scene analysis is contrasted beautifully with the shows. The reports of the female investigator in a male-dominated detective world was moving, especially with the notion people still have - a decade and a half after this book was written - that women still belong in the kitchen and making babies (Not to mention the new misogynistic Texas law which turns women into baby making machines)
In contrast was the last but one chapter - the author is completely wrong by the way; the Original CSI is not the best show precisely because it has no character. I really can hate Grissom but I'm not a fan of Mac either mind you. Horatio's heart is what I love. But I still enjoy the sarcastic humour and the arguments presented.
Underrated book for me. Better than any of the CSI novels and I've enjoyed them enough to reread all the Miami ones
The rest of the book makes me wish I'd read this when I started watching CSI NY way back when. Absolutely brilliant and realistic view of crime scene analysis is contrasted beautifully with the shows. The reports of the female investigator in a male-dominated detective world was moving, especially with the notion people still have - a decade and a half after this book was written - that women still belong in the kitchen and making babies (Not to mention the new misogynistic Texas law which turns women into baby making machines)
In contrast was the last but one chapter - the author is completely wrong by the way; the Original CSI is not the best show precisely because it has no character. I really can hate Grissom but I'm not a fan of Mac either mind you. Horatio's heart is what I love. But I still enjoy the sarcastic humour and the arguments presented.
Underrated book for me. Better than any of the CSI novels and I've enjoyed them enough to reread all the Miami ones
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July 6, 2011Amazing thriller and filled with mystery yet to be discovered and more horror but not too much is yet to come!
August 31, 2012
Some very interesting essays about the show, the science and the characters.
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