The coroner's lunch
Record details
- ISBN: 9781455118502
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Physical Description:
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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. |
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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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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.