- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Constable; 1st edition (26 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845290593
- ISBN-13: 978-1845290597
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,362,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the beginning there were five identical murders, the bodies eviscerated and the organs scattered playfully around. Beverley Wharton had been certain that the killer was Melkior Pendred, but her colleague, Sergeant Homer, always believed she had caught the wrong man and that it was Melkior's twin, Martin, who was guilty.
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Keith McCarthy is a consultant histopathologist. Trained at St George's Medical School, London, he began practising pathology in 1985. The fifth Eisenmenger and Flemming mystery will be published in 2007. He is currently working on his third novel featuring Eisenmenger and Flemming.
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"The secret of his craft was to ask the right question."
26 July 2006
Format:Hardcover
The protagonists of Keith McCarthy's "The Final Analysis" are pathologist John Eisenmenger and his lover, solicitor Helena Flemming. Years earlier, five murders were committed that were attributed to the late Melkior Pendred, a mortuary assistant who was convicted and sentenced to prison. Melkior's twin brother, Martin, is still alive and at large. When additional murders are committed that resemble the earlier killings, the police are alarmed and bewildered. Is it possible that the authorities blamed the wrong man? The gorgeous and seductive Inspector Beverley Wharton, who has been known to bend the rules to further her own ambitions, strongly argued that Melkior was guilty. The latest developments in the case may cost Beverley her career. In an attempt to redeem herself, Beverley contacts Eisenmenger, who has a part-time job in the Western Royal Infirmary Histopathology Lab. The two team up to find the murderer.
The author clearly demonstrates that in police stations as well as pathology labs, politics and personalities play major roles. Insecure and paranoid superiors routinely bully their subordinates and scramble to cover up their own errors. Meanwhile, John, in his steady and methodical way, begins to ask the right questions that will eventually lead to the murderer's identity.
McCarthy's descriptive writing is excellent and his prose style is relentlessly gripping. Although the plot is convoluted and occasionally implausible, the characters are compelling, the dialogue is clever, and the suspense is almost unbearable. The author has been a pathologist for over two decades, and his expertise adds realism to the forensic details. Some readers may object to the blood and gore. There are graphic descriptions of the murderer eviscerating his victims. However, in spite of its flaws, "The Final Analysis" has much to recommend it. It is an engrossing and powerful indictment of the immoral acts that certain individuals commit in order to protect their own selfish interests.
The author clearly demonstrates that in police stations as well as pathology labs, politics and personalities play major roles. Insecure and paranoid superiors routinely bully their subordinates and scramble to cover up their own errors. Meanwhile, John, in his steady and methodical way, begins to ask the right questions that will eventually lead to the murderer's identity.
McCarthy's descriptive writing is excellent and his prose style is relentlessly gripping. Although the plot is convoluted and occasionally implausible, the characters are compelling, the dialogue is clever, and the suspense is almost unbearable. The author has been a pathologist for over two decades, and his expertise adds realism to the forensic details. Some readers may object to the blood and gore. There are graphic descriptions of the murderer eviscerating his victims. However, in spite of its flaws, "The Final Analysis" has much to recommend it. It is an engrossing and powerful indictment of the immoral acts that certain individuals commit in order to protect their own selfish interests.
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The Wrong Twin ...
3 Sep 2005
Format:Hardcover
This your typical British whodunit from a medical perspective. The author went to med school and has worked as a pathologist for twenty years. Basing his novels on his second career as a consultant histopathologist, he manufactures the gory deaths of various victims in an unusal manner.
"It's just one of those tedious academic things that professors have to do." He is interrupted in an intimate situation with a chestnut-skinned partner to go out to assist in another of the murders where the dead has been eviscerated. The police home in on a pair of twins who work in a mortuary, autistic Melkior and his brother Martin.
Melkior is put in prison after the first five murders and is dying as a result of being so mistreated. Autistic people cannot reason as we do. Then a different but similar murder takes place and the police change their collective minds to place blame for all of the murders on Martin. He is let go for a technicality. "So often in crime it seemed that there was no proof either way, and it came down to a question of balance of probabilities."
What the jury did not know is that Martin always used a double hitch knot at the end of a suture while his autistic brother used only a single hitch. The first five for which Mwlkior was incarcerated had the double. Sometimes the final analysis is overlooked, as in my health (what causes internal bleeding).
"It's just one of those tedious academic things that professors have to do." He is interrupted in an intimate situation with a chestnut-skinned partner to go out to assist in another of the murders where the dead has been eviscerated. The police home in on a pair of twins who work in a mortuary, autistic Melkior and his brother Martin.
Melkior is put in prison after the first five murders and is dying as a result of being so mistreated. Autistic people cannot reason as we do. Then a different but similar murder takes place and the police change their collective minds to place blame for all of the murders on Martin. He is let go for a technicality. "So often in crime it seemed that there was no proof either way, and it came down to a question of balance of probabilities."
What the jury did not know is that Martin always used a double hitch knot at the end of a suture while his autistic brother used only a single hitch. The first five for which Mwlkior was incarcerated had the double. Sometimes the final analysis is overlooked, as in my health (what causes internal bleeding).
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