I am a sucker for anything CSI related (and NOT because of the TV show, stupid CSI tv show) so I HAD to buy this when I saw it on sale at Barnes and Noble

The Quote for the first chapter - traditional medical maxim..."The psychiatrist knows nothing and does nothing, the surgeon knows nothing and does everything, The pathologist knows everything...but is always a day too late."

and the Quote from the last chapter - Andre Gide (1869-1951)..."Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

I finished this book just now, a few minutes after midnight on the 16th. I am loving this book. I won't say the whole book was engrossing, or that I didn't skim on occassion, but overall, a very readable book.

I read a few other reviews, and they compared it to Stiff -- it is nothing like Stiff. They have the similarity of discussing what happens when we die, however Stiff is looking at it as a "what do you do with the body?", and Corpse is looking at the forensic discovery of time of death (something that really does plague the Homicide detective)

Lots of good information on what is often the standard - entomology (bugs) -- although the three mortis are also still used (livor, rigor, alvor). It made me want to pay more attention on my next homicide scene.

I plan to pass this around the Crime Lab, in hopes that my co-workers will enjoy it as much as I have.

--notes for my log at home, 2001, 258 pgs.

passed on to the Lt.

passed on to Linda

sitting on my desk at work.

I left work in December of 2021, and I believe I left this book behind in the UMFCL library.