Category: Booka

When I think of people who work with the dead, I think of people who work in funeral homes, including funeral directors and embalmers, police detectives and that’s about it. However, in her entertaining book All the Living and the Dead, Haley Campbell identified several more professions that work with the dead, including crime scene… Read more

True crime aficionados know that medical examiners, like the late great Dr. Donald Mallard (Ducky) on NCIS, talk to the dead and the dead talk back. It is not unusual when watching an episode of NCIS to hear Ducky, or his successor, holding a one-sided conversation with the corpse on the table. These conversations include… Read more