Full name: Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist

Author: Zakaria Erzinclioglu Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books ISBNs: 9780312311322 031231132X

The science of forensic entomology-the application of insect biology to the investigation of crime-is extremely specialized, combining as it does an expert knowledge of entomology with keen powers of observation and deduction. Dr. Erzinclioglu has been a practitioner for over twenty-five years and has been involved in a great number of investigations, including some recent high-profile cases, where his evidence has been critical to the outcome. A great admirerer of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Erzinclioglu compares his own techniques with those of his fictional hero, and takes the reader behind the often gruesome but deeply fascinating scenes of a murder investigation. This absorbing book ranges over cases from history, prehistory and mythology to the present day and is as gripping and readable as a good thriller. Similar books: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman Einstein and the Quantum by A. Douglas Stone The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil Universe by Martin Rees The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy Theoretical Physics by Georg Joos Murmurs of Earth by Carl Sagan Understanding the Universe by Don Lincoln Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane The Ocean World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau Every Day On Earth by Steve Murrie The Tangled Web by Michal Zalewski Nature's Building Blocks by John Emsley