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Death in
Paradise
The Official
Illustrated History
of the Los Angeles County Coroner
Tony Blanche, Brad Schreiber
- Book Description
Currently registering about 200 deaths a day, the L.A.
County Coroner's office has solved some of the most lurid
crimes in America, has pioneered some of the most trusted
methods of forensic science in the world...and is the
only one in the country to have a gift shop (proceeds of
which go toward the Youthful Drunk Driver Visitation
Program). This is the first authorized history of the
City of Angels by way of its coroner's office, revisiting
important or high- profile cases that remain mysterious
even if they've been solved. Many of their investigations
are now legend (the Black Dahlia, Bugsy Siegel, Marilyn
Monroe, Robert Kennedy, Nicole Brown Simpson), and
others, while not as infamous, are no less bizarre (the
California funhouse dummy that was discovered to be a
100-year-old embalmed gunslinger from Oklahoma). Dramatic
black-and-white photos--many never published--paint a
sordid landscape of murder, mutilation, and madness from
the frontier to the front page. Features a section on Dr.
Thomas Noguchi, often referred to as "Coroner to the
Stars."
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