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Cheating Death
Cheating Death
Author: Edwin Chen
It looked like a typical tragic heart attack. Tycoon Melvin Hanson, visiting Los Angeles, died in his doctor's office. Dr. Richard Boggs signed the death certificate. And insurance companies began to pay out well over a million dollars. That was that. — Except it wasn't. The corpse was not Melvin Hanson. And the death was the result of brilliant ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780451403155
ISBN-10: 0451403150
Publication Date: 3/3/1992
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Onyx Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Very good read - could not put this one down and it does keep you interested all the way to the last page...
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Unlike a mystery, a true crime account gives the reader everything up front - who committed the crime, why they did it, how they did it, and how the police, lawyers and detectives figured everything out and eventually captured the crooks. Chen writes a compelling account of insurance scams and dogged police work that kept my attention throughout.


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