- Fiction, Medical examiners (Law), Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character), Women physicians
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of Beryl Madison, an author, whose latest manuscript is now missing.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 387
- Publisher
- Librairie des Champs-Elysées, Warner Books, Collier Macmillan Canada
- Editions
- 62
- Language
- Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9780000018106
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- Fiction
- Medical examiners (Law)
- Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character)
- Women physicians
- Forensic pathologists
- Women detectives
- Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Medical examiners (Law) -- Fiction
- Forensic pathologists -- Fiction
- Women physicians -- Fiction
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“RETURNING THE KEY WEST LETTERS TO THEIR MANILA folder, I got out a packet of surgical gloves, tucked it inside my black medical bag, and took the elevator down one floor to the morgue.”
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