The Case of the Musical Cow

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When the Massachusetts Police have a particularly tough murder case they call in Dr. Alan R Moritz.

Dr. Moritz considers himself primarily a pathologist. I look upon him as a scientific detective. Whatever he is, he has a razor-keen mind.

Where a less perceptive mind would hack away at an objective, Dr. Moritz, with his keen mental perception, cuts through to his objective with the precision of a micrometer knife slicing off a laboratory specimen.

Some men who have a string of degrees after their names have difficulty in applying what they know. They can teach but they can’t perform.

Dr. Moritz, however, is different. His mind is a highly trained scientific instrument of exact precision. His education consists of no mere array of facts gleaned from the pages of books, but is truly a background of encyclopedic knowledge. His mind is constantly, insistently probing in its search for truth.

As a pathologist, he might well be content merely to examine the vital organs and determine the cause of death, to study the bones of a skeleton and ascertain the age, height and sex. But he does far more than this. When he probes beneath a skeleton in search of clues in the grass, he functions as a scientific detector of crime; his investigations are remorselessly thorough.

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