Dead Reckoning by Michael Baden and Marion Roach, Simon & Schuster,
$25, ISBN 0684867583
NEW YORK City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner is a busy place now, but
Michael Baden has written a book about less violent times, when people died one
by one and he was called to investigate the cases. Baden has spent 40 years
performing autopsies, exhuming corpses and scouting crime scenes. Dead Reckoning
conveys his enthusiasm, even delight, in tasks that make hardened detectives
faint and send most people scurrying away.
Baden—who wrote Dead Reckoning with science writer Marion
Roach—discovered his calling while still in medical…
