The Vesuvius Isotope (The Katrina Stone Novels) by Elise Ph.D. Kristen

Author:Elise Ph.D., Kristen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Murder Lab Press
Published: 2013-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

About a decade ago, a traveling scientific exhibit passed through San Diego. The exhibit was called Bodies. It featured anatomical models similar to those one would observe in a high school science class, except that they were real. One could wander through the various sections of the exhibit and observe, in situ, the entire circulatory system, the respiratory system, the reproductive systems of both males and females—even neurons.

The bodies of the exhibit were preserved using a technology called plastination, a brand new preservation technique that had been invented at the turn of the twenty-first century for the specific purpose of preserving the bodies. As I stood in the basement beneath Raimondo di Sangro’s chapel, I realized the Bodies exhibit had precedent more than two centuries prior.

“How did he do this?” I asked incredulously.

“Legend held that these were two of di Sangro’s servants who had angered him. The belief was that he preserved the circulatory systems by injecting the victims with mercury while they were still alive.”

“Is that part true?” I asked.

“He certainly did have an affinity for science, as you have seen. And he also had an affinity for using mercury, as I mentioned about the scrolls. But how he made these, nobody knows. Chemical analyses have yielded evidence of all sorts of organic substances associated with the capillaries and veins, including beeswax. So it appears that these models are, um, partly real. The rest is a mystery.

“Di Sangro’s palace was adjacent to where this chapel was built. He had a laboratory in the basement of the palace. His contemporaries documented strange noises and strange flashes of light coming from the laboratory at all hours of the night. It’s really no wonder they were afraid of him. And he moved secretly between his lab and the outside world through an underground tunnel connecting the laboratory under the palace to this chapel basement.

“Officially, the tunnel no longer exists.”

“And unofficially?” I asked.

“Where do you think we’re going?” Alyssa said and pushed aside the display case containing the pregnant female.

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