The Case Of The Daring Divorcee [antikvár]

ForewordSome years ago, I dedicated a Perry Mason mysteiy (The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink) with an appropriate foreword to my friend, E>r. Russell Fisher, who, at that time, had just been appointed Chief Medical Examiner of the State of Maryland.Since that thne, I have watched Dr. Fisher's progress with a feeling of pride in his achievements, and those achievements have been many.Now, as Chief Medical Examiner of the State of Maryland, he has developed his office so efficiently that in the large urban area of Baltimore, every Medical Examiner's case is thoroughly investigated and two out of three deaths studied by the Medical Examiner are autopsied. By comparison, in Pittsburgh (Allegheny County, Pennsylvania), a city of similar size, only 6% of such deaths were autopsied under the coroner system.Yet Maryland's medical examiner system cost only seventeen cents in the Baltimore area in contrast to twenty-two per person in the Pittsburgh area."^is is an enviable record and the voters have shown their confidence in Dr. Fisher and the department he has headed by recently approving a bond issue which will be used to build a new central headquarters building for Maryland's medical examiner system. This building will house the service fimction and some research activities of the office. Furthermore, it is planned