The Final Analysis: An Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mystery - Hardcover

McCarthy, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786715731 ISBN 13: 9780786715732

Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group, 2005

Synopsis

The author of The Silent Sleep of the Dying offers a chilling new mystery about a cold case involving twin brothers--one dying in prison convicted of being a serial killer, and the other still free and suspected by some of committing the crimes.

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Synopsis

At first there were five identical murders, the bodies eviscerated and the organs playfully distributed around. Beverly Wharton had been sure that the guilty man was Melkior Pendredan autistic and highly skilled mortuary assistantbut her colleague, Sergeant Homer, had always thought she had caught the wrong man and it was his twin, Martin, who was responsible. With Melkior dying in prison, a sixth, apparently identical murder gives Homernow a chief inspectorthe perfect chance to settle a few scores. Martin Pendred is arrested but then released on a technicality after the intervention of his solicitor, Helena Flemming. Then he disappears. Another murder occurs and the hunt for Martin Pendred becomes intense. Beverly Whartonfearing for her career if it is shown Melkior Pendred was innocent calls on John Eisenmenger to help her. He had been the pathologist on the original murders and soon spots slight differences of technique between present and past murders. And when a fellow pathologist is murdered, Eisenmenger begins to guess what is going on. Then Helena disappears, kidnapped by Martin Pendred, and while Eisenmenger desperately searches for her he discovers the final piece of evidence that reveals just who is behind the latest murders.

Edition details

• Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786715731
• ISBN 13: 9780786715732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288