Snow Falling on Cedars Chapter 5 Summary

  • Now we meet the coroner, Horace Whaley, and get some information about him. We hear about the day he performed Carl Heine's autopsy and what he discovered.
  • When Art and Abel arrived at Horace's offices, Horace relayed his findings so far. In particular, he mentioned a head wound that Carl had sustained and noted that he had seen that kind of wound during WWII, when Japanese soldiers used their gun butts to perform kendo strikes. Horace told him that, if Art was going to "play Sherlock Holmes" (59), he should go looking for a "Jap" with a bloody gun butt. Charming.