AT the information desk of a downtown Manhatten Barnes And Noble, I ask about a title--Be your own undertaker. How to dispose of a dead body. The young man behind the desk doesn't miss a beat. "Has it begun to smell." he asks,with a perfunctory grin that acknowledges yet undercuts the small joke between us. He knows there is no corpse in need of disposal my inquiring openly aboutsuck a book in a Barnes …showed first 75 words of 263 total…

…showed last 75 words of 263 total…times" to allow for the release of buoyant gases during decomposition. And if you've got to remove incriminating ballistic evidence from a head wornd, you can "cut the skin off the forehead, break up the skull bone behind it, and reach with long tweezers, chopsticks, or something similar...."Bowman's earnest, intimate tone--"if you find yourself gripped by a constant urge to visit or look over te site...resist it" is both eerie and hilarious.