Tortured by witnessing his parents being shot and killed before his very eyes, heri to a private fortune and massive estate, young Bruce Wayne dedicated his life to hard work and ceaseless strving to rid the world of crime and murder. But strength, cunning, and single-mindedness were the only tools he had, until he discovered the science of forensics. Within a few years he was already one of the world's greatest detectivs. To strike fear into the hearts and minds of criminals, he also took on a midnight persona, and became the Batman.

During he course of his long career in solving murders and bringing murderers to justice, Batman has kept detailed casefile notebooks that reveal as much about himself as they do about how to solve even the most confounding crimes.

in The Forensic Files of Batman, noted Batman writer Doug Moench creates a rich trov of entries and casefiles, uncovering the inner secrets of the Batman's greatest cases and their solutions. herre you will read first-hand accounts of how the Dark Knight brought to justice such infamous murderes as Harvey Dent, a.k.a. Two-face, and the insane criminal known as the Joker; how he faced down the murderous Poison Ivy, and trapped the revenge killer who called himself the Scarecrow. But beyond these headline-grabbing villains, Batman faced even more dedly psychopaths, and the details of these cases, too, are here. the common thread to cracking all of these cases are his forensic abilities.

Interspersed with terse and tension-filled casefiles are the Batman's notes on a variety of areas of forensic science, form ballistics to entomology, from fingerprints to how to harvest a crime scene for evidence. His knowledge of forensics has become one of his most potent weapons in his personal crusade to catch murderers before they kill again.In The forensic Files of Batman, you will learn the "how" as well as the "why"

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