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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Coroner Siri Paiboun must identify a corpse found near the mansion of the new Laotian president, an investigation which includes communication with the dead, sacrificial rituals, a marriage proposal, and strange disco music that only the doctor can hear.
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Language
English
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Dr. Siri Paiboun, the official and only coroner of Laos, must investigate the death of a man who was run down by a logging truck. Was it merely an accident or something sinister? When he discovers a cryptic message in the victim's pocket, Dr. Paiboun believes in the latter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Siri Paiboun, aged chief coroner of Laos, must investigate three mysteries. First, the government asks him to identify a pair of badly burned corpses. Second, he must determine what sort of creature is mauling Vientiene citizens. Finally, he must find out why people are inexplicably falling from the ministry building to their deaths.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Siri Paiboun, the spry seventy-three-year-old reluctant national coroner of Laos, is out of town when a booby-trapped corpse is delivered to the morgue in Vientiane. The lives of visiting doctors, the morgue attendants, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri's fiancee, are saved by the intervention of Nurse Dtui, the doctor's longtime assistant, but it is a near thing. Who is responsible for this outrage?" "On his way back from a Communist Party meeting...