Murder and mayhem : a doctor answers medical and forensic questions for mystery writers

Description

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." Abstract: In "Murder & Mayhem", Dr Doug Lyle answers medical and forensic questions from mystery writers originally sent in to his "The Doctor Is In" column for the Mystery Writers of America. Subjects include weapons of death, police and the crime scene, and the coroner and the crime lab. Read more... Content: 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.