The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases

by Deborah Halber

Book Overview

Mary Roach meets C.S.I. in this "lively study that's part whodunit, part sociological study...The result is eminently entertaining and will be devoured by armchair detectives" (Publishers Weekly).Currently, upwards of forty thousand people in America are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. It's DIY CSI, solving cold cases...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451657595
• ISBN13: 9781451657593
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"