Avg. Customer Rating:(based on 2 reviews) Sales Rank: 758939 Category: Book
Author:Charlotte Jones Publisher:Yearling Studio:Yearling Manufacturer:Yearling Label:Yearling Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Paperback Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 144 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.4
Product Description Can a skeleton confess? Can a talking parrot actually lead the police to a suspect?
Throughout the twentieth century, important crimes have been solved with unusual clues that have required detectives to go off the beaten track and sometimes to consult with experts from scientific fields. Charlotte Foltz Jones has drawn together numerous actual accounts that illustrate the fascinatingly diverse and often surprising paths to truth. Bugs, dirt, bite marks, and even pets are all potential crime-solving clues. This page-turning book is perfect for detectives-to-be, young scientists, and all those interested in a peek at the police work that goes on behind the scenes.
From the Hardcover edition.
Amazon.com Review Kids fascinated by crime stories, science, or detective series books will have fun with this straightforward look at the technology of crime solving. Logically organized, the book includes chapters with titles such as "Get a Clue!," "Skeletons Talking," and "Body Language," each of which deals with just what its title suggests. A resourceful reader could probably base a very nice science report on this book, in fact.
Never gory or gross, and often even funny, especially when explaining things such as the reason police analyze a murder victim's stomach contents, Fingerprints and Talking Bones includes a glossary, cool crime facts, and a bibliography.
[For kids 10 and up.]
Customer Reviews:
Good info but gory March 19, 2004 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I would NOT recommend this book for younger kids. It treats death too flippantly. Too many stories about dogs helping to find dead little girl's bodies and killers dropping bodies in places and... death on most of the pages. Judge the maturity of your kid to handle this stuff before you buy! Otherwise, the facts are interesting on things they use to solve crimes.
Fingerprints and Talking Bones. May 31, 2001 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I did my review on Fingerprints and Talking Bones. It`s how real-life crimes are sloved. From geting the clue to U.S. crime facts this is a very good book. I recommend this book for ages 10 and up. It tells you storys of cases that was sloved related to that clue. For ex. it may say cats and have a story on how a crime was solved with the help of a cat. That is why I give this book 4 stars.
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