Murder On The Home Front
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It is 1941. There may be a ‘war of chaos’ in the skies over London, but ‘the perpetual war against the underworld of crime’ must nevertheless continue on the streets below. Eschewing her journalistic post, Molly Lefebure accepts an offer to become a secretary for the famed forensic pathologist, Dr Keith Simpson. It is the beginning of an extraordinary adventure and ‘Miss Molly’ becomes Dr Simpson’s right-hand woman, following him to crime scenes, courtrooms and mortuaries, taking notes, collecting evidence and witnessing the most shocking of sights. This book details many of her wartime stories.
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The remarkable true story, as seen in the brilliant TV adaptation now showing on Netflix!
Murder on the Home Front follows Molly Lefebure as she navigates working for the Home Office’s chief forensic pathologist while living in a bomb-stricken London during the second world war.
One ordinary day in 1941, forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the ‘horrors of secretarial work’ don’t appeal to Molly Lefebure, she’s intrigued to find out exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door.
Capable and curious, ‘Miss Molly’ quickly becomes indispensible to Dr Simpson as he meticulously pursues the truth. Accompanying him from sombre morgues to London’s most gruesome crime scenes, Molly observes and assists the investigations into murders which, despite the war around them, are still being perpetrated.
| Weight | 0.246 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20 × 13 × 2.2 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 278 , 8 unnumbered of plates |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 614.1092 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
