Have been diverted temporarily off course by a couple of non-fiction, writing books this week - as well as my night-time fiction reading. First book is The Crime Writers Handbook by Douglas Wynn (Allison & Busby 1997) which explains 65 ways to kill your victim.....in print. Unfortunately this is a borrowed book which Bryan would like to see again and so its time to make my research notes from it before returning it. Finding some juicy information.....
A single blow to the head will very rarely kill a person. It probably won’t even render them unconscious. A rain of blows, again to the head, is usually necessary and even then it probably won’t keep them quiet.
Death is more rapid in fresh than salt water because fresh water more readily enters the blood stream, upsetting the sodium/potassium balance, which leads to rapid and irregular beating of the heart (ventricular fibrillation) which, in turn, hastens death. Salt water has a higher osmotic pressure and does not diffuse into the blood stream so easily.
I have tried to get my own copy but to no avail. I even sent an email to the publishers but no reply...... Sweet Dreams
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