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A Case of Need is a medical thriller/mystery novel written by Michael Crichton, his fourth novel and the only under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company (New York) and won an Edgar Award in 1969.
- Michael Crichton
- 1968
- Overview
- List of characters in order of appearance
is a mystery novel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company (New York) and won an Edgar Award in 1969. The novel was re-released in 1993 under Crichton's own name.
The novel is a medical thriller in which a Boston pathologist, Dr. John Berry, independently investigates the death of a young woman, Karen Randall. Berry becomes involved when his friend Dr. Arthur Lee is implicated in Karen's death: Lee is accused of performing the abortion on Karen Randall that led to her death. Crichton's later novels are preoccupied with technology: his novels can be extended examinations of the morality and implications of a particular innovation draped over the structure of a thriller novel. In A Case of Need, however, it is a medical practice and not a technological innovation that is at issue.
•Frank Conway
•Herbert Landsman
•John Berry
•Judith Berry
•Sanderson
•Sally Planck
In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode.
- Blake Edwards
- March 29, 1972
- PG
- 1 hrs. 41 min.
Apr 19, 2019 · Michael Crichton, writing as Jeffery Hudson, won the 1969 Edgar Award for Best novel for his medical thriller, A Case of Need. [An abortion] is not a particularly difficult operation—a well-trained nurse can do it with no problem. There’s only one small catch. It’s illegal.
A Case of Need looks at the ethics involved when a youngster captures the attention of journalists and receives a new liver and a large amount of cash, while another child with an equal...
- Bill Fitz, Deni Elliott
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A Case of Need is a 1968 mystery novel written by Michael Crichton, who went under the name "Jeffery Hudson" at the time. This novel was adapted into a 1972 film titled The Carey Treatment. There is a 1993 re-release of this book under Crichton's actual name.
