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Dead men do tell tales : the strange and fascinating cases of a forensic anthropologist / William R. Maples and Michael Browning.

Maples, William R. (Author). Browning, Michael. (Added Author).

Summary:

Overview: From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most interesting, and most horrific investigations, from the baffling cases of conquistador Francisco Pizarro and Vietnam MIAs to the mysterious deaths of President Zachary Taylor and the family of Czar Nicholas II.

Record details

ISBN: 0385479689
ISBN: 9780385479684
ISBN: 0385474903
ISBN: 9780385474900
Physical Description: 292 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: First Main Street books edition.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 1995.
Copyright: ©1994

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1: Every day is Halloween -- 2: Talkative skulls -- 3: Bolts of bones -- 4: Enfolding earth -- 5: Flotsam and Jetsam -- 6: When the sickness is your soul -- 7: Outpacing the friend -- 8: Unnatural nature -- 9: Sunless place -- 10: Flames and urns -- 11: Death in 10,000 fragments -- 12: Lost legions -- 13: Misplaced conquistador -- 14: Arsenic and "old rough and ready" -- 15: Tsar of all the Russias -- 16: These rough notes and our dead bodies -- Acknowledgments -- Index.