No Remedy for Death: The memoirs of a pathologist by Lynch, Philip Patrick

Hardcover, very good condition, presentation label to first end paper, minor foxing and tanning. Dust jacket minor edge wear

Publisher: Long, 1970 Illustrations. + Index. 192pp.

Through three decades Dr. Lynch was consultant pathologist to the New Zealand police. Those years covered medical science's steady development in detecting crime in a country which has an outstanding record for bringing criminals to justice. The author's cases are varied and startling. Necessarily each chapter begins with a body; some are known, some are waiting identification - all are in various stages of destruction. In one case the body was in separate suitcases; in another a woman literally rose from the grave to point to her murderer; in a third the bullet holes in the corpse indicated New Zealand's first gang killing. The author also deals in detail with possibly his most celebrated case: the savage rape and murder of a woman by a stranger who fled without leaving a clue to his identity - other than the state of the battered body. A book providing a remarkable record of one man's dedication and resource in the field of forensic medicine.

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