Three separate families find their relationships threatened by murders committed fifty years apart as they uncover evidence about the crimes and are faced with self-sacrifice and unspeakable evils.

Provides an introduction to forensic science and the techniques used by crime scene investigators, and describes twenty related activities and experiments appropriate for science fairs, including the analysis of blood spatter patterns, DNA extraction, lie detection, document recovery, and others.

Readers must follow the lead of Detective Rose Law to identify a murder victim found in a storeroom at the town's rail yard, find out why he was killed, and identify the murderer.

Describes how the FBI investigates various crimes, sifts through evidence, and hunts down violent criminals.

Batman provides a introduction to the techniques used by real police to investigate crime, and discusses how they are paralleled by his own superhero endeavors.

In 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the...

A Massachusetts state investigator is summoned to Knoxville, Tenn., to assist the local district attorney, who has aspirations of becoming governor. She plans to use some radical new DNA technology to solve the 21-year-old murder of an elderly woman. It's the DA's hope that if she solves the case, it will cinch her chances of winning the political post. The investigator isn't so sure about that, but before he can say anything, a nasty piece of violence...