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Murder and Mayhem: A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers.


D.P. LYLE

Where do writers for television shows, such as Law and Order, or authors of crime novels turn when they need technical answers to medical questions? one of the first places is the author of this book, cardiologist Cardiologist
Doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating heart diseases.

Mentioned in: Electrophysiology Study of the Heart, Lithotripsy


cardiologist

a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
 D.P. Lyle. This collection of questions and answers is culled from Lyle's regular column in publications produced by the Mystery Writers of America. In this book, readers learn how dangerous or safe it is to handle cyanide cyanide (sī`ənīd'), chemical compound containing the cyano group, -CN. Cyanides are salts or esters of hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid, HCN) formed by replacing the hydrogen with a metal (e.g., sodium or potassium) or a radical (e.g. , what the most lethal knife wounds are, how long someone can survive in a freezer freezer

the compartment in which meat and offal are stored at freezing temperatures of 10 to 16°F (-12 to -9°C) although there is a trend to lower temperatures of 0 to -22°F (-18 to -30°C).
, and what a wound from a close-range gun-shot looks like. Thomas Dunne Thomas Dunne (10 March 1926 – 3 August 1990) was an Irish Fine Gael Party politician. and TD for Tipperary North from 1961–1977.

He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1957 general election, but at the 1961 election he defeated the Fianna Fáil TD Mary Ryan, and
, 2003, 278 p., hardcover, $23.95.
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