Fictional Death and Scientific Truth: The Truth-Value of Science in Contemporary Forensic Crime Fiction.

In this article, the author explores the relationship between science and truth in forensic crime fiction by analysis of narrative and media-specific constituents of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-) and Patricia Cornwell's The Scarpetta Factor (2009). Despite the different media, both are foun...

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Published in:	Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company) Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 88 - 99
Main Author:	Bergman, Kerstin
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	McFarland & Company, Inc. Spring2012
Subjects:	Science in literature American detective & mystery stories CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV program) Scarpetta Factor, The (Book) Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, 1956- Forensic sciences on television
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	In this article, the author explores the relationship between science and truth in forensic crime fiction by analysis of narrative and media-specific constituents of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-) and Patricia Cornwell's The Scarpetta Factor (2009). Despite the different media, both are found to establish a strong bond between science and truth, and readers/viewers are encouraged to assume that this also is the case in the external world.