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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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Book/TextRequest in advance PN3448.D4 L95 2003Off-site

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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
  • Detective and mystery stories > Miscellanea
  • Forensic sciences > Miscellanea
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