Did you know that Sherlock Holmes used forensic science methods before the police did? That until Prohibition, medical examiners did not know how to use science to tell what caused death? This course will explore the basic science behind modern detection.. Students will read and view mysteries and compare the methods to real life. Crime scene analysis, fingerprinting, DNA fingerprinting, blood spatter patterns, presumptive blood testing, blood typing, skeletal remains and establishing the time of death will be studied. Summatives (including the final exam) will be staged crime scenes.