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The coroner's lunch

Cotterill, Colin. (Author). Chafer, Clive. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781455118502
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (1 audio file).
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Audio file.
Title from image on Web page (viewed July 1, 2011).
Previously released on compact disc, 2011.
Subject: Paiboun, Siri Doctor (Fictitious character) Fiction
Physicians Fiction
Coroners Fiction
Older people Fiction
Laos Fiction
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.


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