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The education of a coroner : lessons in investigating death / John Bateson.

by Bateson, John, 1951-

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Scribner, 2017.

Forensic sciences -- California -- Marin County.

Coroners -- California -- Marin County -- Biography.

9781501168222 (hc.)

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

x, 358 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-358).

First blush -- Baptism by fire -- The barbecue murders -- 14K3, 10-49, 10-55 -- At the scene -- The overdose that wasn't -- Investigating homicides -- The trailside killer -- Inside San Quentin -- An unnecessary death -- Investigating suicides -- The bridge -- The German tourist -- Investigating the unusual -- Bones and a frozen infant -- Investigating abuse -- Remembrances of October -- Cases in the news -- The Mitchell brothers -- Notes and notifications -- Power struggles -- A supervisor's wrath -- Ending and beginning.

In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking cases handled by the coroner of Marin County, California throughout his four decades on the job--from high-profile deaths to serial killers, to Golden Gate Bridge suicides.

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