Read Murder Mystery Novels
and Stories of Deadly Medicine
by a Noted Neurosurgeon
Published in 2001, Joseph T. McFadden's first murder mystery
novel, Hermes' Viper, has kept people
awake at night in the same vein as Robin Cook. We've all heard of
medical horrors from our family and friends, and sometimes we are
the victims of these true-life mess-ups and doctor blunders. But
when mysterious murders occur in a hospital, the very place where
patients go to be saved, the paradox triggers horrifying twists
and turns. What is frightening about the novel Hermes'
Viper is that although it is fiction, it seems so true it could
be lifted right from the pages of the national news. This is
definitely not a murder mystery novel you want to give to your favorite
person before they go in for surgery...
What a great movie this murder mystery would make!
Angus Publishing is proud to present the medical mystery thriller,
Hermes' Viper, a novel which is not so much an intentional
expose' as it is a walk with the doctor author through his reminisce
of reality and harm in the medical environment. Think most hospital
deaths are due to disease and other unsolved medical mysteries?
Think again, as you will observe the well-hidden mayhem of fratricide,
negligence, mercy killings, and euthanasia. If this wasn't enough
for your senses, also witness the hidden lives of staff insanity,
stalkers, and just plain old greed and ambition.
Without a doubt the author, a retired neurosurgeon, exposes himself
to danger and personal risk with these shocking revelations of the
events in the well-respected and hallowed hallways of medical institutions.
This is one of the best murder mystery novels to ever depict the
world of deadly medicine. It is not only an indictment of the system,
but a warning to potential patients and their loved ones to exercise
due diligence when seeking or receiving medical services.
"Hermes" is Stuart Holton, a neurosurgeon to Chicago's poor, and
"the Viper" is a psychopathic stalker suffering from multiple personality
disorder and erotomania. As a master of disguises, the Viper starts
to murder patients at an increased rate in her twisted hope of winning
the love of Dr. Holton, the object of her erotomania for sixteen
long years. Mercy killing her way through the wards of a Chicago
charity hospital, the Viper insanely believes that by poisoning
patients she is helping Holton free up beds to further his career
and perform more surgeries. Stuart's children give him the idea
to use virtual reality to solve the mystery of the high death rate.
A computer literate colleague, a forensic pathologist, develops
a program using fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence to predict
the next victim, someone very close to Holton... [Read
more]
"Neurosurgeon's novel cuts into
reader's mind." -- Jim Pratt, Oxford Town News,
Oxford Mississippi
"Riveting read, can't put it down. Sheds
light on more than one mystery. Had me by the throat, read through
the night into the next day." -- Guy Friddell, The
Virginian Pilot, Hampton Roads, VA
Other medical fiction by Joseph T. McFadden:
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In the mystery novel, The Wafer, untold numbers of doomed
patients await the donation of a beating heart. When black-market
organs enter the equation, things can turn ugly. In ancient
cultures, priests presented the still-living heart at a ceremony
to appease the Gods. In modern society, the church symbolically
presents the wafer and wine. In "The Wafer," surgeons,
the priests of medicine, acquire donor organs to extend another
life -- but playing God can have its penalties.
[Read more about the murder mystery novel The
Wafer]
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Gossip, whether the dominating or an insidious force, is the underlying
catalyst for each of the stories in "Fulton's Monkey."
The stories in this collection depict manifestations of human frailty:
pride, poverty, avarice, penury, envy, love, lust, racial strife
or organized religion set against the backdrop of gossip.
[Read more about the short stories in Fulton's
Monkey]
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