MURDER ON THE HOME FRONT A True Story of Morgues, Murderers and Mystery in the Blitz

Paperback. Reissue/Reprint. Foreword by Keith Simpson. Follow 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 indispensable 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. Featuring amongst others : Harry Dobkin, Joan Pearl Wolfe/August Sangret, Alex de Antiquis, Reuben Martirosoff and Frank 'The Duke' Everitt, The Luton Sack Murder (the Mantons), Albert Pierrepoint + much more. Illus. 278pp. p/back. F. with no creasing to covers.