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Summary: Great Murder Mystery for any Chemistry Enthusiast
Review: As a murder mystery involving pharmacology, this novel allowed the introduction of pharmacological techniques with related terminology. The author, Dirk Wyle, is able to describe to the reader very complex concepts and terminology of pharmacology in an understandable language. At the Dade County Medical Examiners Office in Miami, the Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Geoffrey Westley, suspects foul play in the death of the chairman at the local pharmacology college, Bryan Medical School. The medical examiner believes the murderer used a protein toxin to facilitate the death of the department chair at the local pharmacology college; however, no puncture marks were visible on the victim. The technician in the examiner's office, Ben Candidi, is assigned to enroll in the college and determine the method of death and the person responsible. Enrolling into the college allows Ben and the reader to be introduced to many concepts and practices of pharmacology. After acceptance by the pharmacology department, Ben Candidi analyses many toxins and their mechanism of action to determine their probability of being the device of death.
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Summary: Great Murder Mystery for any Chemistry Enthusiast
Review: As a murder mystery involving pharmacology, this novel allowed the introduction of pharmacological techniques with related terminology. The author, Dirk Wyle, is able to describe to the reader very complex concepts and terminology of pharmacology in an understandable language. At the Dade County Medical Examiners Office in Miami, the Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Geoffrey Westley, suspects foul play in the death of the chairman at the local pharmacology college, Bryan Medical School. The medical examiner believes the murderer used a protein toxin to facilitate the death of the department chair at the local pharmacology college; however, no puncture marks were visible on the victim. The technician in the examiner's office, Ben Candidi, is assigned to enroll in the college and determine the method of death and the person responsible. Enrolling into the college allows Ben and the reader to be introduced to many concepts and practices of pharmacology. After acceptance by the pharmacology department, Ben Candidi analyses many toxins and their mechanism of action to determine their probability of being the device of death.
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Summary: Learning Chemistry Painlessly!
Review: I was so impressed with this book that I have decided to add it to my reading list for a senior/graduate student Chemistry course. While I also assign a more traditional text for my "Organic Chemistry of Drug Design" class, I thought this mystery would be a fun way to reinforce certain principles of biomedical science including analytical methods, peptide and protein stabilities, and basic deductive reasoning.
I think most college students will love following the path of Ben Candidi as he enters graduate school, meets every stereotypical professor you can think of, and learns that no field is immune from its characters, petty jealousies, and intrigue. It's far more believable than a typical 007 yarn, and yet is just as entertaining. Dirk Wyle followed this up with two more books, including the late 2001 release of "Medical School is Murder", surely an aptly titled tome if ever there was one. I look forward to more such fun from this clever and talented author.
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Summary: A highly adventurous book
Review: In Pharmacology is Murder, Dirk Wyle is able to wind a story about a murder that takes place in Dade County Florida and goes unsolved for nearly a year. The book is an interesting blend of adventure and clinical humor intertwined in a murder mystery that takes the scientific genious of a middle aged employee of the medical examiner's office through a trial and error process, to solve. The story steps through a crazy trail of deceit and misconception that leads Ben Candidi through the perils of a doctoral program in pharmacology and a love affair with a sophmore medical school student. I recommend this book to anyone who is willing to suffer through some of the dry humor and is unphased by sexual innuendoes.
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Summary: A highly adventurous book
Review: In Pharmacology is Murder, Dirk Wyle is able to wind a story about a murder that takes place in Dade County Florida and goes unsolved for nearly a year. The book is an interesting blend of adventure and clinical humor intertwined in a murder mystery that takes the scientific genious of a middle aged employee of the medical examiner's office through a trial and error process, to solve. The story steps through a crazy trail of deceit and misconception that leads Ben Candidi through the perils of a doctoral program in pharmacology and a love affair with a sophmore medical school student. I recommend this book to anyone who is willing to suffer through some of the dry humor and is unphased by sexual innuendoes.
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Summary: BEST NOVEL I HAVE READ IN A LONG TIME
Review: This Ben Candidi mystery by Dirk Wyle kept me on my toes. A murder mystery takes place in Dade County. Ben Candidi is sent to graduate school at the school of Pharmacology to help solve the mystery. While he is investigating, he meets several original characters that remind me of my own college experience. Along the way, he meets up with a sophomore medical student, Rebecca. This novel had the right amount of mystery, romance, and suspense for me. There is a lot of chemistry jargon, but it is always well explain so as not to leave you in the dark. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a little mystery. I plan to read the other books written by Dirk Wyle.
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Summary: BEST NOVEL I HAVE READ IN A LONG TIME
Review: This Ben Candidi mystery by Dirk Wyle kept me on my toes. A murder mystery takes place in Dade County. Ben Candidi is sent to graduate school at the school of Pharmacology to help solve the mystery. While he is investigating, he meets several original characters that remind me of my own college experience. Along the way, he meets up with a sophomore medical student, Rebecca. This novel had the right amount of mystery, romance, and suspense for me. There is a lot of chemistry jargon, but it is always well explain so as not to leave you in the dark. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a little mystery. I plan to read the other books written by Dirk Wyle.
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Summary: Organic Chemistry of Drug Design is Murder
Review: This book has the intelligent taste of a good mystery novel with a good spanking of steamy romance. The book is more easily digested if a background knowledge of chemistry and biology, but it does not preclude those who haven't. A must read for any quick wits out there!
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Summary: Organic Chemistry of Drug Design is Murder
Review: This book has the intelligent taste of a good mystery novel with a good spanking of steamy romance. The book is more easily digested if a background knowledge of chemistry and biology, but it does not preclude those who haven't. A must read for any quick wits out there!
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Summary: The Chemical Sherlock Holmes
Review: This Candidi mystery, as it is so categorized by reviews on the back of the book, tells the story of an unmotivated, underachieving lab technician who unveils a murder conspiracy in a Miami medical school. Ben Candidi, the lab technician, is portrayed as an ordinary guy with no intentions of moving on from his dead-end labeled job. This is the case until approached by his boss and chief medical examiner Dr. Geoffrey Westley entices Candidi to implement himself into the local medical school, Bryan Medical School, to unravel findings of a murder Westley believed to be caused by the victim�s coworkers. This was the suspected murder of the Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at Bryan Medical School, Dr. Charles D. Cooper. Candidi accepts the proposal and moves on as a normal grad student to infiltrate the medical school and derive the source of the conspiracy. As time passes, Candidi is generalized as a normal grad student who attempts to keep his motives secret to protect the case while at the same time himself. Upon learning different methods and uses of many proteins that were originally thought to solely be taken orally, Candidi discovered what he had been searching for.
The book was written in an overall technical manner which appealed to my scientific mind. However, a scientific mind is not necessary to take an interest in this book. This book did promote a stern interest about other innovative chemicals and methods of using pharmacology for reasons deemed both good and bad. As a reader, I was highly impressed with the author's style. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys creative murder mysteries.
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