Amazon.com description: Product Description: Provides film, TV, and fiction writers with essential information on all aspects of murder and its investigation and prosecution, including: types of murders; methods; motives; criminal profiles; police investigative tools and procedures; medical examiner and crime lab tools and procedures; criminal court procedures; and much more. Unique to this book is the inclusion of a copy of an actual Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 'murder book' -- a law enforcement agency's complete paper trail that follows a murder from the time it is first reported through the arrest of a suspect.