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Coroner
General Fiction验尸官
(us) John Bateson
Forty years, thousands of corpses, and more than 800 cases. How does a coroner deal with death? How to determine the time and manner of death? How to determine the identity of the deceased? How to negotiate with family members? What psychological principles are involved? Holmes tells death-related stories through one case after another, from the sensational "Barbeque Murder" to the largest prison in the United States, "San Quentin"; from a cult stronghold in a quiet community to a sleepwalking suicide; there are both hilarious ways of death that make people laugh and cry, as well as bones and frozen babies that make one's hair stand on end... Reality is more lamentable than fiction, and more like life. This book tells the daily life of a coroner.
Forty years, thousands of corpses, and more than 800 cases. How does a coroner deal with death? How to determine the time and manner of death? How to determine the identity of the deceased? How to negotiate with family members? What psychological principles are involved? Holmes tells death-related stories through one case after another, from the sensational "Barbeque Murder" to the largest prison in the United States, "San Quentin"; from a cult stronghold in a quiet community to a sleepwalking suicide; there are both hilarious ways of death that make people laugh and cry, as well as bones and frozen babies that make one's hair stand on end... Reality is more lamentable than fiction, and more like life. This book tells the daily life of a coroner.