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Title: Cause of Death : A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder and Forensic Medicine (Howdunit Series) by Keith D. Wilson ISBN: 0-89879-524-9 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A lively guide to death
Comment: This book is an excellent resource for writers who want to imbue their stories with the authentic details of unnatural death but don't really have all the tools and training of a full-time medical examiner. In my case, as a crime author, the text was an invaluable reference, putting some highly technical material into easily digested context. Recommended for writers of all kinds who need a good reference work on the myriad ways to die.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very useful - helped me to sell my first crime novel.
Comment: This book was very useful when it came to describe an autopsy, crime scene victims, and especially gun-shot wounds. I've used it as a research tool for my first novel FIRST KILL (JB Books)and saved myself countless hours of research. I recommend it to anyone who wants to increase their chances of publication. I sold my first crime book (to be released next year), and I'm convinced I wouldn't have been able to accomplish an authentic setting with relative ease if I didn't have this book (and others in the series).
Rating: 2
Summary: Good information, bad writing
Comment: This is part of the Writer's Digest "Howdunnit" series--aids for the mystery writer when constructing a story. There's a lot of great information here, from the description of how an emergency room is arranged and operated, to the same for an autoposy, to numbers for ways in which people die by suicide, homicide and accidents. Wilson uses some quotes from books--mystery and otherwise--to illustrate his sections. I can't say much for his choice of quotes, especially this one from Robin Cook's Mortal Fear:
"Glancing up at the monitor, which still showed normal ECG activity, Jason touched Cedric's neck. He could feel no pulse.
'Let me have a cardiac needle,' he demanded. 'And someone get a blood pressure.' A large cardiac needle was thrust into his hand as he palpated Cedric's chest to locate the ridge of the sternum."
I imagine that it might be difficult to continue to work after someone thrust a huge needle into your hand, eh? Such wonderful writing to be used as a model for would-be authors. I also noticed that Wilson is in love with the M.D. designation following his name. His name never appears in the book without it. From the use of quotes from his own published novels, and from the fiction that he created from this book, its obvious that the M.D. never helped his fiction writing any, other than provide him the information that makes up this book. Maybe it did help him understand the material presented here; at least enough to present it in a clear and readable manner. I plan to go on and check out the other books in this series, but I hope the other authors are better fiction writers than this guy.
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Title: Scene of the Crime: A Writer's Guide to Crime-Scene Investigations (Howdunit Series) by Anne Wingate ISBN: 0898795184 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons (Howdunit Series) by Serita Deborah Stevens, Anne Klarner ISBN: 0898793718 Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Just the Facts, Ma'Am: A Writer's Guide to Investigators and Investigation Techniques (Howdunit) by Greg Fallis ISBN: 089879823X Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Police Procedural: A Writer's Guide to the Police and How They Work (Howdunit) by Russell Bintliff ISBN: 0898795966 Publisher: F & W Pubns Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide to Weapons (Howdunit Series) by Michael Newton ISBN: 089879370X Publisher: Writer's Digest Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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