"and what they are doing. Then I focus on an image. From that image comes the story ... "". Unnatural Exposure (novel) Unnatural Exposure is a crime fiction novel by Patricia Cornwell. It is the eighth book in the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series. The story is set in Richmond, Virginia and Ireland. Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who"
"Patricia Cornwell Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is a contemporary American crime writer. She is known for writing a best-selling series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies. A descendant of abolitionist and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956 in Miami, Florida, second of three children, to Marilyn (née Zenner) and Sam Daniels. Her father was one of the leading appellate lawyers in the United States and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black."
"The Scarlet Empress (novel) The Scarlet Empress is an original novel written by Paul Magrs and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Eighth Doctor, Sam and Iris Wildthyme. On the ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic still exists, the Doctor reads tales from the Aja’ib, a strange book full of peculiar adventure stories, while Sam goes exploring and meets an alligator skinned man, Gila, chained up in a double-decker London bus. Using the bus to come to her rescue, the Doctor and Sam are soon caught up in a struggle"
"The Serpent's Shadow (Lackey novel) The Serpent's Shadow (2001) is a novel by American writer Mercedes Lackey, part of her Elemental Masters series. It is set in London in 1909 and is based on the fairy tale Snow White. Dr. Maya Witherspoon is a young doctor who has just emigrated to England, and intends to practice medicine in London. She had lived most of the first twenty-five years of her life in her native India. The daughter of a British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, Maya was trained in medicine by her father and graduated from"
"biographical and bibliographical information on Reeve is available in """" Volume 1 (fiction) and Volume 2 (nonfiction) (Locke, editor). Some of his stories include: Arthur B. Reeve Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called ""The American Sherlock Holmes"", and Kennedy's Dr. Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in 18 detective novels. The bulk of Reeve's fame is based on the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in ""Cosmopolitan"" magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were collected in book"
"Ezra Jack Keats Ezra Jack Keats (March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustrating ""The Snowy Day"", which he also wrote. Keats wrote ""A Letter to Amy"" and ""Hi, Cat!"" but he was most famous for ""The Snowy Day"". It is considered one of the most important American books of the 20th century. Keats is best known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American children's literature. He was one of the first children’s book authors to use an urban setting for his stories and he"
"Arthur B. Reeve Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called ""The American Sherlock Holmes"", and Kennedy's Dr. Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in 18 detective novels. The bulk of Reeve's fame is based on the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in ""Cosmopolitan"" magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were collected in book form; with the third collection, the short stories were stitched together into pseudo-novels. The 12-volume Craig Kennedy Stories were released in 1918; it reissued"
"agile and young man, Rhymer is a ghostbuster who depends on his Holmes-like deductive mind and cunning wits to defeat supernatural opponents. Uel Key Uel Key was the pseudonym of British author Samuel Whittell Key (1874–1948), who wrote short stories regarding Prof. Arnold Rhymer, the Spook Specialist. These tales appeared in ""Pearson's Magazine"" in 1917 and 1918 and were later collected in ""The Broken Fang and Other Experiences of a Specialist in Spooks"" (1920). A novel concerning Prof. Rhymer, entitled ""The Yellow Death"", was published the following year. Key's recurring occult detective, Prof. Arnold Rhymer, is an English medical doctor"
"friend and investigative partner, Pete Marino. The timing is bad as the killer of Drew Martin, quickly known as the Sandman, spreads death and destruction from Italy to the American South. Passively assisted by his estranged parents, both known by if not loved by Kay, and his ex-girlfriend who has devious deeds of her own to do, the Sandman is an international mystery for Kay, Benton, Marino, and Kay’s niece Lucy. Cornwell's Scarpetta series has been criticized for being repetitive and morbid by some critics whilst other reviewers claim that the characters in Cornwell's recent books have been ""shallow"" and"
"Uel Key Uel Key was the pseudonym of British author Samuel Whittell Key (1874–1948), who wrote short stories regarding Prof. Arnold Rhymer, the Spook Specialist. These tales appeared in ""Pearson's Magazine"" in 1917 and 1918 and were later collected in ""The Broken Fang and Other Experiences of a Specialist in Spooks"" (1920). A novel concerning Prof. Rhymer, entitled ""The Yellow Death"", was published the following year. Key's recurring occult detective, Prof. Arnold Rhymer, is an English medical doctor and lecturer who works closely with Scotland Yard on various cases involving the unusual, weird and/or exotic. Portrayed as a tall, lean,"
"Frederick Creighton Wellman Frederick Creighton Wellman (born on January 3, 1873 near Kansas City, Missouri; died September 3, 1960 Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American physician specialising in tropical medicine, scientist, author, playwright, teacher, artist and engineer. As an author he wrote under the pseudonyms Cyril Kay-Scott and Richard Irving Carson. His colorful life led to the epithet ""the Casanova of Tropical Medicine"". Frederick Creighton Wellman was born on January 3, 1873 in Independence, Missouri, his father was Wheeler Montgomery Wellman and his mother was Nellie Jane (Blake) Wellman. He attended the Central High School, Kansas City before going"
"on that desolate future Earth. Dr. Futurity Dr. Futurity is a 1960 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is an expansion of his earlier short story ""Time Pawn"", which first saw publication in the summer 1954 issue of ""Thrilling Wonder Stories"". ""Dr. Futurity"" was first published as a novel by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-421, bound dos-à-dos with John Brunner's ""Slavers of Space"". Dr. Jim Parsons is a doctor from 2012 who was born in 1980. Abruptly, he undergoes involuntary time travel to 2405 and finds that his profession is treated with"
"The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (short story) ""The Adventure of the Clapham Cook"" is a short story by crime fiction writer Agatha Christie. It features the writer's famous detective Hercule Poirot and his companion Captain Arthur Hastings. The story was first published in 1924 in the British weekly journal, ""The Sketch"", as part of the series, ""The Grey Cells of M. Poirot II"". It also was featured in a collection of short stories entitled ""The Second Omnibus of Crime"" by author Dorothy L. Sayers first published in 1932. It first appeared in book form in the U.S. in 1951"
"mystery. The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (short story) ""The Adventure of the Clapham Cook"" is a short story by crime fiction writer Agatha Christie. It features the writer's famous detective Hercule Poirot and his companion Captain Arthur Hastings. The story was first published in 1924 in the British weekly journal, ""The Sketch"", as part of the series, ""The Grey Cells of M. Poirot II"". It also was featured in a collection of short stories entitled ""The Second Omnibus of Crime"" by author Dorothy L. Sayers first published in 1932. It first appeared in book form in the U.S. in"
"Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published ""A Study in Scarlet"", the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic"
"Wickett's Remedy Wickett's Remedy is a 2005 historical novel by Myla Goldberg, about the 1918 influenza epidemic. It was published by Doubleday. The novel makes heavy use of annotations, marginalia, and false documents to support its premise; Goldberg has stated that Vladimir Nabokov's ""Pale Fire"" was a major influence on her in this respect. In 1918 Boston, Lydia Kilkenny is a sales clerk who marries medical student Henry Wickett. When Henry, and most of her relatives, die of the ""Spanish flu"", Lydia becomes a nurse, and works to help find a cure by assisting in medical experiments on convicted Navy"
"Jennifer Armintrout Jennifer Armintrout (born July 11, 1980) is an American author best known for a series of urban fantasy novels known as the ""Blood Ties"" series, published by Mira Books. The books chronicle the life of Dr. Carrie Ames, an emergency room doctor who must adapt to life as a vampire after being attacked by one of her patients. Armintrout's ""Blood Ties"" series has been published in five countries, with the first volume making USA Today's top 150 book list. Armintrout also publishes erotica under the pseudonym Abigail Barnette. Reception to Armintrout's work has been mixed to positive, with"
"an atrocity and claiming that it advocated rape and racism. Jennifer Armintrout Jennifer Armintrout (born July 11, 1980) is an American author best known for a series of urban fantasy novels known as the ""Blood Ties"" series, published by Mira Books. The books chronicle the life of Dr. Carrie Ames, an emergency room doctor who must adapt to life as a vampire after being attacked by one of her patients. Armintrout's ""Blood Ties"" series has been published in five countries, with the first volume making USA Today's top 150 book list. Armintrout also publishes erotica under the pseudonym Abigail Barnette."
"broken into her home. As she attempts to reach for a gun she has nearby for protection, Marino bursts into her bedroom and shoots the intruder, having realized that the news article would make Scarpetta a likely target. Scarpetta's suspicion proves to be correct; the killer was a 911 dispatcher. ""Postmortem"", Patricia Cornwell's first novel, was published in 1990 following advice from editors at Mysterious Press to dump the then-male central character and to expand the character of Kay Scarpetta. The novel was a major success and won numerous literary awards. The book is loosely based on the crimes of"
"in the treatment of Tourette's was published by Seignot in 1961. The turning point came in 1965, when Arthur K. Shapiro—described as ""the father of modern tic disorder research""—treated a Tourette’s patient with haloperidol. Dr. Shapiro and his wife, Elaine Shapiro (PhD), reported the treatment in a 1968 article, and severely criticized the psychoanalytic approach. The Shapiros, working with the patient families who founded in 1972 the Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA, renamed to Tourette Association of America in 2015), advanced the argument that Tourette's is a neurological, rather than psychological, disorder, and worked to persuade the media to promote information"
"Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his ""Discworld"" series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, ""The Carpet People"", was published in 1971. The first ""Discworld"" novel, ""The Colour of Magic"", was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. His 2011 ""Discworld"" novel ""Snuff"" became the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. The final ""Discworld"" novel, ""The Shepherd's Crown"","
"The Crimson Patch The Crimson Patch, first published in 1936, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo, the ""Codfish Sherlock"". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. Mr. Myles Witherall, retired New Englander, decides on a whim to take an inexpensive tourist bus to the little town of Skaket, and thereby gets involved in the movements of an escaped killer. Meanwhile, a young married couple of artistic antecedents find that Skaket's inhabitants have turned violently against them, just before they find the body of Rosalie Ray, radio"
"Craig Kennedy Professor Craig Kennedy is a character created by Arthur B. Reeve. Kennedy is a scientist detective at Columbia University similar to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Thorndyke. He uses his knowledge of chemistry and psychoanalysis to solve cases, and uses exotic (at the time) devices in his work such as lie detectors, gyroscopes, and portable seismographs. He first appeared in the December 1910 issue of ""Cosmopolitan"", in ""The Case of Helen Bond."" He ultimately made 82 appearances in ""Cosmopolitan"", the last coming in the August 1918 issue. Twelve stories were reprinted in the first collection, and this continued, but"
"The Clue of the Black Keys The Clue of the Black Keys is the twenty-eighth volume in the Nancy Drew mystery series. It was first published in 1951 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual authors were ghostwriters Wilhelmina Rankin and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Prof. Terry Scott went to River Heights to ask the help of Carson Drew to help him to find Dr. Joshua Pitt. Mr. Drew thought that the case was more of a mystery, so he referred him to Nancy Drew, his daughter who loves detective work. Terry Scott and Dr. Joshua Pitt, together with their teammates,"
"Dr. Futurity Dr. Futurity is a 1960 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is an expansion of his earlier short story ""Time Pawn"", which first saw publication in the summer 1954 issue of ""Thrilling Wonder Stories"". ""Dr. Futurity"" was first published as a novel by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-421, bound dos-à-dos with John Brunner's ""Slavers of Space"". Dr. Jim Parsons is a doctor from 2012 who was born in 1980. Abruptly, he undergoes involuntary time travel to 2405 and finds that his profession is treated with disdain. In the future, the"
"Ruth Bell Graham Story"" (renamed ""Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham"" in subsequent editions), which was published in 1983. The biography gained a ""Gold Medallion Book Award"" from the ""Evangelic Christian Publishers Association"" in 1985. It also, however, was a major blow to her friendship with Graham – they weren't on speaking terms for 8 years following the book's publication. Cornwell began work on her first novel in 1984, about a male detective named Joe Constable and met Dr. Marcella Farinelli Fierro, a medical examiner in Richmond, and subsequent inspiration for the character of Dr. Kay Scarpetta."
"Virginia Institute for Forensic Science and Medicine Founded in 1999 as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine is a provider of education, training, and research. The Institute's purpose is to strengthen and improve the administration of justice by educating forensic scientists, forensic pathologists, law enforcement, legal professionals, medical professionals, and the public. The institute was founded with a grant from novelist Patricia Cornwell, creator of the fictional medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. The Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine has a medical examiner system, forensic science laboratories, and more than 200 faculty members who"
"Randall Garrett Randall Garrett (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to ""Astounding"" and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet. Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books — the novel ""Too Many Magicians"" and two short story collections — set in an alternate world where a joint Anglo-French"
"Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (""The Maltese Falcon""), Nick and Nora Charles (""The Thin Man""), and the Continental Op (""Red Harvest"" and ""The Dain Curse""). Hammett ""is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time"". In his obituary in ""The New York Times"", he was described as ""the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."" ""Time"" magazine included"
"Anne Abbott Anne Wales Abbott or, Abbot (April 10, 1808 – June 1, 1908) was a game designer, magazine editor, literary reviewer, and author. Abbott was born 10 April 1808, the daughter of Reverend Abiel Abbott, a Beverly, Massachusetts clergyman, and Eunice Abbott. Abbott (sic) designed the hugely popular card game ""Dr. Busby,"" which was published by W. & S. B. Ives of Salem, Massachusetts on March 7, 1843. It sold 15,000 copies in its first eighteen months Abbott authored her second game ""The Game of the Races"" which was sold in Salem, Mass. through J. P. Jewett on January"
"The Key to Rebecca The Key to Rebecca is a novel by the British author Ken Follett. Published in 1980 by Pan Books (), it was a best-seller that achieved popularity in the United Kingdom and worldwide. The code mentioned in the title is an intended throwback from Follett to Daphne du Maurier's famed suspense novel ""Rebecca"". While undertaking research for his best-selling novel ""Eye of the Needle"", Follett had discovered the true story of the Nazi spy Johannes Eppler (also known as John W. Eppler or John Eppler) and his involvement in Operation Salaam, a non-fiction account of which"
"in the series is ""The Tortured Path"", written as by Kendell Foster Crossen, featuring Major Kim Locke of the CIA, on assignment in Communist China. Two other Kim Locke novels, in which Locke works with a military dog, were omitted from the Paperback Library series: ""The Big Dive"" and ""The Gentle Assassin"", the latter as by Clay Richards. Crossen's papers and works are collected at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. Kendell Foster Crossen Kendell Foster Crossen (July 25, 1910 – November 29, 1981) was an American pulp fiction and science fiction writer. He was the creator"
"for a long time the manuscript could not be found. When the Abbott home was sold in 1936, the manuscript was thought to be lost. It was discovered by Walter Graham and published as ""David P. Abbott's Book Of Mysteries"" in 1977. David Abbott (magician) David Phelps Abbott (September 22, 1863 – June 12, 1934) was a magician, author and inventor who created such effects as the floating ball, later made famous by Okito. The best known of his books is ""Behind the Scenes with the Mediums"" (1907) considered to be one of the best exposures of the tricks used"