Crime Scene: How Investigators Use Science to Track down the Bad Guys by Vivien Bowers; Illustrated by Martha Newbigging
	List Price:   $9.95 Unit Price:   $7.96 You Save:   $1.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   1897066562 ISBN-13:   9781897066560 Publisher:   Maple Tree Press Edition:   illustrated Category:   Non-Fiction Pub. Date:   February 2006 Pages:   64 Format:   Paperback
Awards
2006  Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize  Nominee/Honoree  2000  James Beard Foundation KitchenAid Book Awards  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
Crime Scene takes young readers behind the yellow tape, into the crime lab, and into the heads of investigators. As they study the whys and hows of connecting clues, suspects, and victims, budding sleuths learn how unique clues like toolmark and fibers provide irrefutable conclusions; how to detect fake money and forged documents; how faces are reconstructed from bare skulls; and how crime scenes can be surrounded by silent witnesses that speak volumes. Martha Newbigging?s witty illustrations enhance the book?s lively design, while readers? curiosity is quenched with striking photos from the lab. A glossary of forensic specializations details the many different professionals that each case requires.