Help For Beginning Writers

December 5, 2007 by Chris
Filed under: Lessons Learned

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I’ve come across several helpful websites in the course of writing my book. How writers managed without the Internet amazes me. Of course, any writer including a mystery or three in their book has to know a bit about the underside of crime and detection. Forensics. One always hopes to find the answers to their burning questions of investigation and forensics right at hand. I’ve stumbled upon a few cop websites during my research. I feel sorry for the beginning writer posting a question on these forums only to get flamed by others, saying you want answers for free? I guess cops have figured out they have a valuable commodity. Not all are like that, of course. There are some very generous people out there willing to share what they know. Such is the case with D. P. Lyle, MD’s website, The Lab.

Lyle generously offers to answer your specific forensics/investigation question within the forum on his site. I, like many others who have posted, have benefited from his experience in the field. What’s especially helpful about this site is that he takes the weird and wild questions. “I have a situation where the victim’s body has been put through a wood chipper, and the remains are found in a plastic container. How would a medical examiner proceed to examine these remains…” Where would you begin?

Lyle answers questions thoroughly and in layman’s terms. For my part, I have been grateful for his answer and will incorporate his facts into my work.

Tags: forensics, investigation, writing

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