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Inquest
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Author’s Note --
Some may think this is a cruel and shocking story. It is cruel, though, only in the sense that men are cruel, for men motivated the events which I have described here. And it is shocking only because few citizens ever stop to give thought to the little drama known as The Inquest - or to the old-fashioned and inept coroner system which still manages to bumble along in parts of our country.
Many attorneys, physicians, reporters and politicians have been good enough to clarify the procedures for me, and I am indebted to them.
In the sense that these events could happen, this is a true story, and I have attempted to make it as graphic and as accurate as possible.
Editor’s Note --
In this new book, the author of Wake Up and Scream takes us behind the scenes for an electrifying glimpse into some of the most insidious double-dealings and gutter morals of our day.
Some may think this is a cruel and shocking story. It is cruel, though, only in the sense that men are cruel, for men motivated the events which I have described here. And it is shocking only because few citizens ever stop to give thought to the little drama known as The Inquest - or to the old-fashioned and inept coroner system which still manages to bumble along in parts of our country.
Many attorneys, physicians, reporters and politicians have been good enough to clarify the procedures for me, and I am indebted to them.
In the sense that these events could happen, this is a true story, and I have attempted to make it as graphic and as accurate as possible.
Editor’s Note --
In this new book, the author of Wake Up and Scream takes us behind the scenes for an electrifying glimpse into some of the most insidious double-dealings and gutter morals of our day.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In addition to writing over twenty to thirty paperback original titles, Ozaki was a reporter, a beauty salon operator, and ran several phony mail order colleges, according to his biographies. Inquest was published under his own name about midway through Ozaki's writing career. It is a fairly short paperback novel, easy to read, and does a great job of keeping a low reader's attention. It has a great opening sequence when a red haired high - heeled dame busts into a bar, beats the crap out of the bartender and wreaks absolute havoc before disappearing into the night. Rather than a mystery, it's a stunning portrait of a corrupt double dealing county and how the sheriff's department and its cronies conspired to cover up corruption. It is a story told in terse third person narrative from numerous points of view, including a courtroom inquest before a handpicked grand jury. It also takes place in the invented torn of Stilwell, Wisconsin, where a number of Ozaki's novels take place. The town of Stilwell is in some respects similar to Ozaki's own Wisconsin hometown and it is firmly set in the fifties. It is a good story, but if one were to find fault with it, it might be that the narration is often removed and impersonal and loses a bit of the passion and desperation that a first person narration might have.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Osaki's book starts off as a rather slimy story about drunken brothers with bladder problems and sex-crazed college students, then settles down into a plot-driven story about a corrupt sheriff's department, a coroner who makes a mistake by going with the flow, a DA, a reporter--well, you name it. There are really too many characters for a book this size, and Ozaki's narrative doesn't do them all justice. He spends a couple of pages providing bios of the members of the coroner's jury, for instance, but none of this info really matters when the inquest actually takes place, because he treats the jurors as basically non-entities. A few other characters seem like good ideas when introduced, but are never fleshed out. Nevertheless, the writing is fluid and the story interesting enough to pull you in and keep you wondering until the disappointing ending, which wraps things up too abruptly and neatly.
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