Blood On the Table

Blood On the Table

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780425219379
Untertitel:
The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Autor:
Colin Evans
Herausgeber:
Penguin Publishing Group
Anzahl Seiten:
346
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.03.2008
ISBN:
0425219372

Informationen zum Autor Colin Evans is a veteran writer specializing in forensics. His books include The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes , and A Question of Evidence: The Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies from Napoleon to O.J. He resides in England. Klappentext For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals, ghastly murders, bloody gang wars, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final authority in cases of sudden, unexplained, or violent death. Founded in 1918, the OCME has evolved over decades of technological triumphs and all-too human failure to its modern-day incarnation as the foremost forensics lab in the world, investigating an average caseload of over 15,000 suspicious deaths a year. This is the behind-the-scenes chronicle of public service and private vendettas, of blood in the streets and back-room bloodbaths, and of the criminal cases that made history and headlines. Zusammenfassung For almost a century! New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years! the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals! ghastly murders! bloody gang wars! the 9/11 terrorist attacks! and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final authority in cases of sudden! unexplained! or violent death. Founded in 1918! the OCME has evolved over decades of technological triumphs and all-too human failure to its modern-day incarnation as the foremost forensics lab in the world! investigating an average caseload of over 15!000 suspicious deaths a year. This is the behind-the-scenes chronicle of public service and private vendettas! of blood in the streets and back-room bloodbaths! and of the criminal cases that made history and headlines. ...

Klappentext
For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals, ghastly murders, bloody gang wars, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final authority in cases of sudden, unexplained, or violent death.

Founded in 1918, the OCME has evolved over decades of technological triumphs and all-too human failure to its modern-day incarnation as the foremost forensics lab in the world, investigating an average caseload of over 15,000 suspicious deaths a year. This is the behind-the-scenes chronicle of public service and private vendettas, of blood in the streets and back-room bloodbaths, and of the criminal cases that made history and headlines.


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