Coroner's Lunch
New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2015], ©2004, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: 257, 27 pages ; 19 cm.
Laos, 1972. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but 72-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor, remains and is appointed state coroner. When three bodies are recovered from a reservoir, Dr. Siri establishes that the cause of death was not drowning -- they seem to have been electrocuted. And then there is the inexplicable death of a Party bigwig's wife at a banquet. Dr. Siri doesn't think her death was from natural causes. In the course of his investigations, he travels to his birthplace, where he makes a discovery.
Series: Cotterill, Colin. Dr. Siri Paiboun series ; 1.
Contents:
People's Democratic Republic of Laos, October 1976 1 -- 1 Vientiane, Two Weeks Later 3 -- 2 Comrade Kham's Wife 26 -- 3 The Boatman's Requiem 62 -- 4 Tran the Elder 71 -- 5 The Chicken Counter 79 -- 6 Autopsy Envy 95 -- 7 The Pathological Rebel 101 -- 8 A Little Fishing Trip 105 -- 9 Assassination 113 -- 10 To Khamuan by Yak 123 -- 11 The Exorcist's Assistant 146 -- 12 A Fear of Landing 161 -- 13 Time to Kill 165 -- 14 The Hairdresser's Bruise 179 -- 15 Succubus Terminal 191 -- 16 Death by Intercourse 194 -- 17 The Disappearing Room 202 -- 18 A Hospital Without Doctors 210 -- 19 Talking to Dead People 217 -- 20 How to Miss the That Luang Festival 224 -- 21 The Other Case 236 -- 22 Thrice Dead 241 -- 23 The Dead Coroner's Lunch 245 -- 24 Just When You Think It's All Over ... 254.
Subjects:
Paiboun, Siri, Doctor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Older people -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Coroners -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Laos -- Fiction.
Paiboun, Siri, Doctor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Older people -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Coroners -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Laos -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1616956496
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
M Cotterill | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Mystery | In |
M Cotterill | Sandhills Indoors | Mystery | In |
Includes a preview of the next Dr. Siri Paiboun investigation "Thirty-Three Teeth."