A Family Business

by Ken Englade

Book Overview

For more than 60 years, Southern Californians entrusted the bodies of their loved ones to the Sconce family's Lamb Funeral Home. But the heirs to the fourth-generation funeral empire betrayed that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312928203
• ISBN13: 9780312928209
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A Great Read!

I read this book several years ago only to eventually meet a person who's grandfather was one of the creamated bodies! I had passed it on to a friend,regretably,and all I can say is if you come across it purchase it immediately and get ready to be entertained and educated in the arena thatis the mortuary business. A business we all know too little about! Thanks Ken Englade for such a compelling and thought provoking book, my only regret is that there are not more available, how 'bout another printing, please, I'll be the first to buy!

I had to cancel my sons Tai Kwon Do tournament to finish it!

This is a true account of a series of crimes you would think never even existed. The bad guys were seemingly well respected business people who unfortunately saw a golden opportunity to make a lot of money cremating bodies after harvesting them of their organs and gold fillings. The fact that they got away from it for so long is amazing. The fact that many of their apparant crimes still go unsolved is even more chilling.

Powerful and disturbing

I read this book when it first came out, years ago. I've never forgotten it. Ken Englade has brought the remote and esoteric business of cremation up close where one can almost feel the fine dust in his nostrils.This is a true story of a heartless, greedy family , entrusted with the remains of countless loved ones, who broke that trust without compunction. If you want to read an expose' on what can happen in an industry without proper independent auditing and supervision, this book will give you chills.Congratulations to Ken Englade on his wonderfully written and researched book.