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What the dead know : learning about life as a New York City death investigator
- Title
- What the dead know : learning about life as a New York City death investigator / Barbara Butcher.
- Author
- Butcher, Barbara
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
- ©2023
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-2750 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 270 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- True crime stories.
- Contents
- The angry hanging man -- Luck joy -- How to roll a body -- Partners in crime -- The Whitehouse hotel -- Don't try this at home -- Timing is everything -- Baby-faced butchers -- The other city -- In case of emergency -- The slain and the slayers -- Fuck Entenmann's -- Homicide: death at the hands of another -- Suicide: murder of the self -- The radios are down -- Whatever it takes -- That's politics -- They locked my ass up.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-2750
- ISBN
- 9781982179380
- 1982179384
- OCLC
- 1347430091
- Author
- Butcher, Barbara, author.
- Title
- What the dead know : learning about life as a New York City death investigator / Barbara Butcher.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-2750