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        The Devil in the White City
       
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        The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
       
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                 3.41 avg rating — 4,349 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
       
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                 4.10 avg rating — 12,493 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA
       
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        DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
       
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        What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
       
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                 4.17 avg rating — 8,267 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
       
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                 4.10 avg rating — 589 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Murder File: An Irish Detective's Casebook
       
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        Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science
       
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                 3.83 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
       
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                 4.10 avg rating — 3,226 ratings
          
         
                  
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        It was murder!
       
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        Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases
       
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                 3.43 avg rating — 49 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
       
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                 4.01 avg rating — 36,827 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Army Detective: Life and Times of Dick Miller: Retired Special Agent US Army Criminal Investigation Division
       
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                 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
          
         
                  
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        A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
       
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                 4.12 avg rating — 9,264 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Forensic Science
       
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                 4.22 avg rating — 59 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them
       
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                 3.86 avg rating — 412 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler
       
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                 3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
          
         
                  
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        How the English Fingerprint Method Arose
       
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                it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
          
         
                  
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        The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation
       
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                 3.88 avg rating — 633 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Forty Years of Murder
       
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                 4.19 avg rating — 330 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Dead Do Talk
       
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                 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The First Detective: The Life And Revolutionary Times Of Eugene-Francois Vidocq Criminal, Spy and Private Eye
       
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                 3.06 avg rating — 113 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Crime and Circumstance: Investigating the History of Forensic Science
       
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                 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Fatal Journey: The Murder of Trevor O'keeffe
       
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                 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious death of a young woman in 1916
       
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                 3.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection
       
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                 3.92 avg rating — 231 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Beating the Devil's Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation
       
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                 3.70 avg rating — 109 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Jigsaw Man: The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist
       
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                 4.28 avg rating — 3,614 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
       
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                 4.07 avg rating — 19,430 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Sheriff: A Detective's Story
       
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                 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Irrefutable Evidence: Adventures in the History of Forensic Science
       
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                 3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Every Contact Leaves a Trace : Scientific Detection in the Twentieth Century
       
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        Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science
       
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                 3.68 avg rating — 234 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Untouchables
       
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                 3.59 avg rating — 59 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Blooding
       
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                 3.98 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
       
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                 3.83 avg rating — 4,935 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Cracking Crime: Jim Donovan--Forensic Detective
       
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                 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
       
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                 4.09 avg rating — 4,656 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
       
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                 3.82 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
          
         
                  
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