John Canning Book order (chronological)

Forensic pathologist Michael Baden was a medical examiner in New York City for more than 25 years. Now he works for the New York State Police and teaches forensic medicine. This engrossing book covers: (1) several famous cases, including Baden's personal re-examination of the autopsy findings for Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy; (2) unusual cases Baden had as medical examiner for NYC, such as an autopsy on a dining room table at the Plaza Hotel; (3) how medical examiners decide on means of death, with a section on poisons; (4) the history of coroners and medical examiners since 12th century England; (5) disturbing politics involved in the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of NYC; (6) identification of the dead; (7) time of death; (8) multiple-murder cases; (9) an almost perfect murder; (10) close calls, including near deaths during sex; (11) cases of mistaken diagnosis; and (12) autopsy findings that shed light on what happened in the Attica uprising.

The crime of murder- horrible at the best of times but doubly chilling when unsolved. Who could have wanted to kill Janice Weston, wealthy solicitor, battered to death in an exposed lay-by on the A1? Where was Weston going? The classic Wallace case- perennially fascinating to students of crime. Recent evidence points to a solution yet it retains its tantalizing quality of mystery. When John Carland was axed to death on holiday in France, his son Jeremy fell under suspicion. Yet could Cartland have been a delayed casualty of World War II? Robert Maxwell: was he murdered? Could a Prime Minister have been a spy for the Chinese? Was Caryl Chessman innocent? Was the man in Spandau the real Rudolf Hess? These and many other cases guaranteed to make grimly compulsive reading.

Investigations, speculations, and interpretations into mysteries of the occult, historical enigmas, and controversial phenomena are discussed

Non-fiction