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Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.

The body farm : a novel / - New York : Scribner's, c1994. - 387 p. ; 25 cm.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for Virginia, investigates the sex murder of a girl by an escaped convict. The probe requires exhuming the body for a second autopsy. Lots of information on bodies and autopsies. By the author of Cruel and Unusual.

ISBN: 0684195976 : $23.00 ($30.00 Can.) 9780684195971

LCCN: 94008595

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Women--North Carolina--Fiction.
Medical examiners (Law)--Fiction.
Forensic pathologists--Fiction.
Women--Virginia--Fiction.
Women physicians--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Virginia--Fiction.
North Carolina--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery stories.

LC Class. No.: PS3553.O692 / B58 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54