A brief notes that some of the proceeds from a book titled "Shadow of Death" will benefit Wayne State University's School of Medicine. A Florida-based physician, who lived in Detroit with two sons as a medical student during the 1967 riot, has written a novel about a Detroit medical student with two sons during the riot. The chief character, Laura Nelson, gets involved in harrowing events mostly from author Patricia Gussin's imagination, not her memory. A photo of Gussin is included.