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Death in paradise : an illustrated history of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner / by Tony Blanche and Brad Schreiber ; foreword by Anthony T. Hernandez.

Title
Death in paradise : an illustrated history of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner / by Tony Blanche and Brad Schreiber ; foreword by Anthony T. Hernandez.
Author
Blanche, Tony.
Publication
Los Angeles : General Pub. Group, c1998.

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Additional Authors
Schrieber, Brad.
Description
192 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner has solved some of the most lurid crimes in American history, and pioneered some of the most trusted methods of forensic science in the world.
Subject
  • Los Angeles County (Calif.). Department of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner
  • Los Angeles County (Calif.). Department of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner > History
  • Forensic Medicine
  • Forensic pathology > California > Los Angeles County
  • Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles County (Calif.)
  • California
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Barbara La Marr. -- William Desmond Taylor. -- Peg Entwhistle. -- Thelma Todd. -- Bugsy Siegel. -- Elizabeth Short: "The Black Dahlia." -- Johnny Stompanato. -- George Reeves. -- Marilyn Monroe. -- Dorothy Dandridge. -- Sharon Tate. -- Janis Joplin. -- Karen Carpenter. -- Nicole Brown Simpson. -- Thomas Noguchi.
ISBN
157544075X (hc)
LCCN
^^^98021620^
OCLC
  • 39052405
  • SCSB-11838022
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library