Includes bibliographical references (page 259) and index.
Contents
1. The body handlers -- 2. Reasonable doubt -- 3. The bone detectives -- 4. The witness was a maggot -- 5. Bug sleuthing crosses the Atlantic -- 6. A model for murder -- 7. The dirty dozen -- 8. Perfecting the postmortem clock -- 9. Plants, pollen, and perpetrators -- 10. The pathologist's garden -- 11. Chemical clues -- 12. The new mod squad.