Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
“Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.”
“The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.”