Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent 72-year-old has an outstanding qualification for it: curiosity. And he...
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Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent 72-year-old has an outstanding qualification for it: curiosity. And he doesn't mind incurring the wrath of the Party hierarchy as he unravels mysterious murders, because the spirits of the dead are on his side. With the help of his newly-appointed secretary, the ambitious and shrewd Dtui, and Mr. Geung, the Down-Syndrome-afflicted morgue assistant, Dr. Paiboun performs autopsies and begins asking questions to solve the mysteries relating to the death of the wife of a government official and of the unidentified body fished out of the river who didn't drown but was tortured with electricity. As it turns out, all is not peaceful and calm in the new Communist paradise of Laos
""Dedication""; ""People's Democratic Republic of Laos, October 1976""; ""Vientiane, Two Weeks Later""; ""Comrade Kham's Wife""; ""The Boatman's Requiem""; ""Train the Elder""; ""The Chicken Counter""; ""Autopsy Envy""; ""The Pathological Rebel""; ""A Little Fishing Trip""; ""Assassination""; ""TO Khamuan by Yak""; ""The Exorcist's Assistant""; ""A Fear of Landing""; ""Time to Kill""; ""The Hairdresser's Bruise""; ""Succubus Terminal""; ""Death by Intercourse""; ""The Disappearing Room""; ""A Hospital without Doctors""; ""Talking to Dead People""; ""How to Miss the That Luang Festival""
""The Other Case""""Thrice Dead""; ""The Dead Coroner's Lunch""; ""Just When You Think It's All Over....""; ""Copyright Page""
