Richard made a few notes as he went, but Elizabeth read several pages without finding anything interesting. Then, “Oh, here it is. ‘The body loses one and a half degrees the first hour, one degree the second, and half a degree every hour after that to the temperature of its environment.’ Well, I don’t know that that’s too helpful.” She made a face and read on in silence.The clock on the mantle chimed the half hour before either of them spoke, then Richard broke the silence, “There’s some interesting stuff here. Do you know anything about lividity?”“What?”“It has to do with the settling of the blood.” He looked on a bit farther, then read some of it aloud, “‘…settles to the lowest parts of the body…begins to show up four hours after death—fully established in six to eight hours…’” He turned the page. “Mmmm, where blood settles skin will look bruised, but pressure points will be white…Once established, lividity can’t be changed by moving the body position or by massage or anything like that…”“Richard,”
