Death in Paradise: An Illustrated History of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner - Hardcover

Blanche, Tony; Schreiber, Brad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157544075X ISBN 13: 9781575440750

Publisher: General Pub Group, 1998

Synopsis

Featuring 150 never-before-published black-and-white photographs, an authorized, uncensored album traces the notorious cases investigated by the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner, from Bugsy Siegel to Nicole Brown Simpson. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Tony Blanche is a writer living in Santa Barbara, California. Brad Schreiber is a writer, teacher, and vice president of Storytech Literary Consulting.

Review:

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." -- Book Description

About this edition

• Publisher: General Pub Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 157544075X
• ISBN 13: 9781575440750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192