Case closed
Subtitle: the real scoop on detective work life
By: Milton Meltzer.
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780439440806
Subjects: Detectives -- Juvenile literature.; Criminal investigation -- Juvenile literature.; Detectives.; Police.; Criminal investigation.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Table of contents: title: What it's like to be a detective: Uncovering secrets; title: The six questions; title: Observation, plus; title: A mold on a petri dish; title: On the crime scene (Box: to link, or to clear?); title: Scared witnesses (Box: electronic witnesses, secret listening, secret watching); title: White-colar crime (Box: swindlers in cyberspace); title: The narcotics squad; title: A tough job; title: Behind the scenes in the lab: The greasy overalls (Box: the Korean rope); title: Fingerprints, millions of them; title: What DNA proves (Box: DNA danger); title: Bullets with signatures; title: Blood and poison; title: No two write alike (Box: Hitler's secret diaries); title: Secrets and lies; title: Eyewitnesses and identification (Box: is it young Mr. Lincoln?); title: Secrets in old bones (Box: when mummies speak); title: Detective work, not on the police force: The Pinkertons and the Molly Maguires; title: Cloak-and-dagger work among the corporations; title: Going after the mafia; title: The investigative reporter (Box: crime busters at the word processor); title: What happens to evidence in court; title: When the innocent are convicted; title: So you want to be a detective?