Summary

Second helping of Quirke, pathologist in 1950's Dublin. Not a sequel to Christine Falls, but many person details referred to in this novel. Proprietor of The Silver Swan, a beauty salon, is an apparent suicide, even though body is nude, found in river. Her older husband asks Quirke not to cut body in post-mortem. He does follow procedure and do an autopsy, but covers up the results. Quirke is a dry drunk in this novel.