Forensics for Dummies - Medieval China's Homicide Detectives

What if a real-life Sherlock Holmes wrote a how-to book for determining how someone died? A similar situation gave history its first forensics book, written for bookworms thrown into field forensics with no former knowledge and severe punishments if they botched up an investigation. The catch? The book was written in medieval China almost a thousand years ago – and still holds up today.