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Book Try the Morgue  A Novel

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  • Author : Eva Maria Staal
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2012-10-15
  • ISBN : 0871403536
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Try the Morgue A Novel written by Eva Maria Staal and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a real-life female gunrunner comes this international bestseller and unforgettable literary debut. Ten years ago, “Eva Maria Staal” kept a gun in her purse. It was a present from her boss, Jimmy Liu, the international arms dealer extraordinaire with a taste for high-class male escorts. Together, Jimmy and his devoted assistant traveled the world’s most dangerous hotspots, closing deals with ruthless warlords and corrupt generals, and trading Stinger missiles in Karachi, AK-47s in Chechnya, and hollow-point bullets in Islamabad. But burdened by her conscience, Eva Maria finally got out, married an optometrist, and had a baby. Now, assailed with memories of her secret life, she must reconcile her suburban present with a repressed but ineradicable past, one that blasts a hole so deep she doesn’t know how to love her own daughter. Writing with a knowing intelligence only an insider could provide, this pseudonymous author has created a debut with remarkable intensity that examines the razor-thin line separating those who are drowned from those who are saved.

Book No Room at the Morgue

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  • Author : Jean-Patrick Manchette
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2020-08-11
  • ISBN : 1681374196
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book No Room at the Morgue written by Jean-Patrick Manchette and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unparalleled take on the private eye novel — fierce, politically inflected, and finely rendered by the haunting, pitch-black prose for which the author is famed. No Room at the Morgue came out after Jean-Patrick Manchette had transformed French crime fiction with such brilliantly plotted, politically charged, unrelentingly violent tales as Nada and The Mad and the Bad. Here, inspired by his love of Dashiell Hammett, Manchette introduces Eugene Tarpon, private eye, a sometime cop who has set up shop after being kicked off the force for accidentally killing a political demonstrator. Months have passed, and Tarpon desultorily tries to keep in shape while drinking all the time. No one has shown up at the door of his office in the midst of the market district of Les Halles. Then the bell rings and a beautiful woman bursts in, her hands dripping blood. It’s Memphis Charles, her roommate’s throat has been cut, and Memphis can’t go to the police because they’ll only suspect her. Can Tarpon help? Well, somehow he can’t help trying. Soon bodies mount, and the craziness only grows.

Book Tales from the Morgue

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  • Author : Cyril H. Wecht
  • Publisher : Prometheus Books
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1615921966
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Tales from the Morgue written by Cyril H. Wecht and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including the Scott Peterson and Chandra Levy CasesA certifiable genius, Wecht has earned degrees both in medicine and the law, but his great passion...is the ever illusive commodity, justice.... [I]f it's an objective opinion you desire, predicated on facts gleaned from forensic science, then Dr. Cyril Wecht is your man. If it's the truth you want in a murder case, he'll give you his conclusions without regard to politics or profit, in fact he often works pro bono. If I'm ever unjustly accused, he's the first one I'm going to call.- IntellectualConservative.comYoung people drawn to the broad fields of criminal justice, medicine, or science will be fascinated by the forensic findings presented here. The thought-provoking cases span 40 years of renowned pathologist Wecht's career....[T]his chatty yet analytical book is written to appeal to laypersons, and it does. Its whodunit aspect is magnetic.- School Library JournalDr. Wecht's evalutions of the evidence in the Gander Airplane Crash, which claimed the lives of 248 American soldiers, and in the police custody death of Jonny Gammage, as well as in the deaths of Laci Peterson and Chandra Levy, raise very troubling questions about compromised investigations that the country's leading forensic pathologist-attorney-coroner uniquely addresses.- Michael Baden, M.D., Former Chief Medical Examiner, New York City and co-author with Linda Kenney of the thriller Remains SilentDr. Wecht is a world renowned pathologist. Reading this book is like being on one adventure after another. For those interested in true crime, you must read this book!- Dr. Henry C. Lee, Author of Cracking Cases and Cracking More Cases and professor of forensic science at the University of New HavenWas Scott Peterson convicted of murdering Laci Peterson based upon circumstantial evidence alone? Did Washington intern Chandra Levy know her killer?In Tales from the Morgue, Dr. Cyril Wecht, one of the most sought-after forensic pathologists in the world, shares his insights and scientific expertise on nine cases that he has officially investigated - high-profile cases as well as other lesser-known but highly intriguing mysteries. Dr. Wecht takes the reader inside some of the nation's most bizarre and intriguing medico-legal investigations and shows how forensic scientists help to solve crimes - and why they sometimes fail in their efforts. His vast experience and his willingness to take on the establishment if necessary and provide proof that runs counter to popular opinion make this book a page-turner.Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., one of the world's leading pathologists, is the author of Mortal Evidence, Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?, Grave Secrets, Cause of Death, and hundreds of professional publications. He has served as president of both the American College of Legal Medicine and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and has appeared on numerous nationally syndicated television programs including NBC's Dateline, Larry King Live, 20/20, Burden of Proof, and many others.Mark Curriden is the senior communications counsel for Vinson & Elkins, LLP; the former legal writer for The Dallas Morning News and The Atlanta Constitution; and a co-author of Mortal Evidence.Angela Powell, former columnist and children's book reviewer for The Dallas Morning News, is now a freelance publicist.

Book Morgue

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  • Author : Vincent Di Maio
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2016-05-17
  • ISBN : 1466875062
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Morgue written by Vincent Di Maio and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this clear-eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the cases that have made DiMaio famous--from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the complex issues in the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. Beginning with his street-smart Italian origins in Brooklyn, the book spans 40 years of work and more than 9,000 autopsies, and Di Maio's eventual rise into the pantheon of forensic scientists. One of the country's most methodical and intuitive criminal pathologists will dissect himself, maintaining a nearly continuous flow of suspenseful stories, revealing anecdotes, and enough macabre insider details to rivet the most fervent crime fans.

Book The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Download or read book The Murders in the Rue Morgue written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rue Morgue Murders" is a pioneering tale in the mystery genre, in which detective Auguste Dupin uses his acute observation and logic to solve a brutal double murder in Paris, revealing a surprising and unusual outcome.

Book The Jennifer Morgue

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  • Author : Charles Stross
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2009-01-06
  • ISBN : 1440660670
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book The Jennifer Morgue written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker extraordinaire for "The Laundry," must stop ruthless billionaire Ellis Billington from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed "Jennifer Morgue," from the ocean's depths for the purpose of ruling the world...

Book The Lady in the Morgue

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  • Author : Jonathan Latimer
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-04-29
  • ISBN : 1480486132
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Lady in the Morgue written by Jonathan Latimer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vanished corpse leads a hard-drinking PI on a madcap chase More than forty corpses fill the cold Chicago basement, but no crime has been committed here. After all, there are supposed to be bodies in the city morgue. Tonight, one is attracting particular attention: a beautiful young woman whose apparent suicide captured the imagination of every newspaper editor in town. Learning how and why she died is too great a task for any cub reporter. Only Detective Bill Crane is up to the job. A few minutes after Crane wakes from a nap in the morgue, the mysterious woman’s body has disappeared. With the howls of the mental patients as a soundtrack, Crane leads the police on a wild search through the hospital and across Chicago, stopping for a nap or a cocktail whenever the situation demands. It may be a matter of life and death, but that is no reason to rush.

Book Now Try the Morgue

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  • Author : Elleston Trevor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1948
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Now Try the Morgue written by Elleston Trevor and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Meet Me at the Morgue

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  • Author : Ross Macdonald
  • Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Release : 2010-12-07
  • ISBN : 0307740757
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Meet Me at the Morgue written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle—a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.

Book Stiff  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Download or read book Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers written by Mary Roach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.

Book Ontological Mathematics

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  • Author : Morgue
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-07-11
  • ISBN : 9781082506437
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Ontological Mathematics written by Morgue and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontological mathematics is the rational core of Hyperianism. It's the science of the future that proves the shocking truth that the world is not material but a collective dream, that so-called "matter" is an illusion, and the ultimate reality is a domain of pure mind. This is not a belief but a deductive, mathematical certainty. Ontological Mathematics was originally leaked to the public via a controversial hidden society operating under various pseudonyms. Since then, it has taken the world by storm. Ontological mathematics isn't any one person's idea. It's a new way of thinking that is championed by the greatest thinkers of the age. Nearly 100 books have been written about it by various authors and independent ontological mathematics research groups are appearing around the world. Ontological mathematics and Hyperianism is a global phenomenon.We have made the groundbreaking knowledge of our system available to all by introducing the reader to the foundational concepts of ontological mathematics in an accessible way. This text assumes the reader has only minimal philosophical knowledge, and it is written in such a way that anyone can begin learning the mathematics of our system.Imagine living in a time and place where the Earth is believed to be flat and humans created by a god. Now imagine you discover a book containing many astounding facts of science such as the spheroidal shape of the Earth and evolution. How exciting would that be? As you read the book, your entire perspective of reality would change. Your world would never be the same. This is such a book.You currently exist in a time and place where existence is viewed as material. This book reveals that the world is in fact a shared dream. Ontological mathematics is the study of the mathematical wave nature of existence. This is not a reality of matter, rather, it's a reality mind, of thought. And what is thought? Thoughts are mathematical sinusoidal waves. So ontological mathematics is the study of the mathematical waveforms of mind that make up all of existence and your very being. The spacetime world isn't a material reality at all. It's the Holos, which is a mathematical Fourier projection from a frequency singularity known as the Source.When properly understood and integrated, the information within this text will change your existence forever and elevate you to a new level of consciousness. This is the science of the future that one day soon will be taught in every school throughout the world.You are a Mind. Existence is Thought. The World is a Dream. The Science of the Future is Here.

Book Life in the Morgue

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  • Author : Lance Anderson
  • Publisher : Outskirts Press
  • Release : 2019-07-30
  • ISBN : 9781977216243
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Life in the Morgue written by Lance Anderson and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An average working guy wanted a career change. When he applied for--and then got--a job he didn't think he was qualified for, he found a lot more than a new paycheck. Inspired by author Lance Anderson's own years working in a medical examiner's office and as a paranormal investigator, Life in the Morgue is not a typical murder mystery, romance, or even crime drama. The novel is focused on the people who work in the morgue, offering readers stories that are at times funny, at times sad, and always intriguing.

Book Corrupt Bodies

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  • Author : Kris Hollington
  • Publisher : Icon Books
  • Release : 2019-09-26
  • ISBN : 1785785532
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Corrupt Bodies written by Kris Hollington and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION ** In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't believe his luck. What he didn't know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins. Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don't ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems and worked alongside Scotland Yard's Murder Squad - including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler. This is a thrilling tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.

Book The Morgue and Me

Download or read book The Morgue and Me written by John C. Ford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Christopher, who plans to be a spy, learns of a murder cover-up through his summer job as a morgue assistant and teams up with Tina, a gorgeous newspaper reporter, to investigate, despite great danger.

Book Try the Morgue

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  • Author : Eva Maria Staal
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2012-10-15
  • ISBN : 087140334X
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Try the Morgue written by Eva Maria Staal and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former gun runner who left the life to marry an optometrist and have a baby in the suburbs describes her time in the world's most dangerous hotspots, sealing deals with warlords and corrupt military leaders for AK-47s and hollow-point bullets.

Book Morgue Ship

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  • Author : Ray Bradbury
  • Publisher : Alien Ebooks
  • Release : 2024-07-10
  • ISBN : 1667620363
  • Pages : 19 pages

Download or read book Morgue Ship written by Ray Bradbury and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors--and he would be among the living again.

Book Mystery in the Morgue

Download or read book Mystery in the Morgue written by Alix Wood and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes detectives get the glory of being the crime solvers, but the true heroes are the scientists who give them the information they need to do their job. Forensic pathologists are experts in determining a person's cause of death. This unique book is part narrative and part science text, explaining how pathologists use their knowledge of the human body to help solve mysteries. Readers will learn about the different aspects of this fascinating job while trailing a pathologist working on an exciting case. The clever and inviting design includes crime-scene photographs and Solve It! quiz boxes.