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| Genre/Form: | Popular works |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jessica Snyder Sachs |
| ISBN: | 073820336X 9780738203362 0738207713 9780738207711 |
| OCLC Number: | 48150282 |
| Description: | x, 270 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The body handlers -- 2. Reasonable doubt -- 3. The bone detectives -- 4. The witness was a maggot -- 5. Bug sleuthing crosses the Atlantic -- 6. A model for murder -- 7. The dirty dozen -- 8. Perfecting the postmortem clock -- 9. Plants, pollen, and perpetrators -- 10. The pathologist's garden -- 11. Chemical clues -- 12. The new mod squad. |
| Responsibility: | Jessica Snyder Sachs. |
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Abstract:
Looks at the role of forensic ecology--the study of plants, insects, chemicals, and other factors--found near a body in helping forensic pathologists determine the time of death.
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