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Murder and mayhem : a doctor answers medical and forsenic questions for mystery writers / D.P. Lyle.
- Title
- Murder and mayhem : a doctor answers medical and forsenic questions for mystery writers / D.P. Lyle.
- Author
- Lyle, D. P.
- Publication
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, c2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | PN3448.D4 L95 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 278 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Collects the author's most noted "The Doctor Is In" columns, in which he answers medical and forensic questions categorized under such subjects as "Weapons of Death," and "Police and the Crime Scene."
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. Doctors, Hospitals, Illnesses, and Injuries -- 1. Traumatic Injuries and Their Treatment -- 2. Environmental Injuries and Their Treatment -- 3. Doctors, Hospitals, and Paramedical Personnel -- 4. Medications and Drugs -- 5. Diseases and Their Treatment -- II. Methods of Murder and Mayhem -- 6. The Effects of Guns, Knives, Explosives, and Other Weapons of Death -- 7. Poisons and Drugs -- 8. Medical Murder -- III. Tracking the Perp -- 9. The Police and the Crime Scene -- 10. The Coroner, the Crime Lab, and the Autopsy -- Odds and Ends, Mostly Odds.
- ISBN
- 0312309457
- LCCN
- ^^2002031887
- OCLC
- 50643745
- SCSB-10483982
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library