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Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand
Curious Adventures of a CSI
Dana Kollmann
Hardbound with original dust jacket
272 pages
Publisher: Citadel
Date Published: February 1, 2007
Without a doubt, Dana Kollmann's book is the frontrunner for the Most Evocative Book Title of 2007. If seeing "Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand" above a colorful lollypop crawling with flies doesn't get you to pick up the book, then nothing in life holds any curiosity for you.
Kollmann draws from her 10-year stint investigating crime scenes in Baltimore County, Maryland, some of the most disgusting stories I've ever come across. As she makes clear from the first page, this isn't "CSI," "Bones," "Without a Trace" or any of those other corpse-of-the-week shows that marries gee-whiz technology with "ripped from the headlines" stories.
During her job, she collected evidence in the rain and snow and indoors where the bodies are ripe beyond the aid of Vicks and high-powered fans. Kollmann combines these gruesome stories with insights into her upbringing -- she was a dedicated bonehunter and wanted to be an archaeologist -- and depictions of her family. There's her Sicilian mother with her roster of superstitions brought over from the old country, her ex-cop father whose "been there, done that" attitude spares him from going on invited ridealongs, and her brother, whose day spent on the job was the one where she encountered the suicide under the fan.
That Kollmann and others like her are willing to do this necessary but sometimes nasty job deserves commendation. The taxpayers certainly aren't paying them enough.
The book has been gently read, the pages are clean and bright with light wear to it's cover.
Order by ITEM #BKS-149-07
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