Doctor Death : a Madeleine Karno mystery
(Book)

Strong-minded and ambitious, Madeleine Karno is eager to shatter the constraints of her provincial French upbringing. She longs to become a pathologist like her father, who is known as Doctor Death, but this is 1894 and autopsies are considered unseemly and ungodly, even when performed by a man. That a young woman should wish to spend her time dissecting corpses is too scandalous for words. When seventeen-year-old Cecile Montaine is found dead in the snowy streets of Varbourg, her family will not permit a full postmortem autopsy, and Madeleine and her father are left with a single mysterious clue.

Originally published in Danish:,København : Modtryk, 2010, as:,Kadaverdoktoren.

Translated from the Danish.