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The anatomy of deception / Lawrence Goldstone.

by Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-

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Doubleday Canada, c2008.

Anatomists -- Fiction.

Forensic sciences -- Fiction.

Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.

342 p. ; 24 cm.

"A novel of suspense"--Jacket.

"This mesmerizing forensic thriller thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer. In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, physicians uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes their breath away. Within days, one doctor, Ephraim Carroll, strongly suspects that he knows the woman’s identity. . .and the horrifying events that led to her death. But in this richly atmospheric debut novel – an ingenious blend of history, suspense, and early forensic science – the most compelling chapter is yet to come, as the young doctor is plunged into a maze of murder, secrets, and unimaginable crimes. Peopled with vibrant real-life characters such as Canadian William Osler, hailed as the Father of Modern Medicine; famed surgeon William Stewart Halsted, who performed the first emergency blood transfusion and invented surgical gloves; and the controversial painter Thomas Eakins, The Anatomy of Deception brings to life a little-known and exciting turning-point in American medical history, when ignorant butchery gave way to intelligent surgery–and a young doctor is forced to confront an agonizing moral choice between exposing a killer, undoing a wrong, and, quite possibly, protecting the future of medicine itself."--Publisher.

Historical fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Historical mystery fiction.

Medical novels.

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