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Forty Years of Murder: An Autobiography
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780880293051
ISBN: 0880293055
Label: Dorset Pr
Manufacturer: Dorset Pr
Publication Date: 1990-06
Publisher: Dorset Pr
Studio: Dorset Pr
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Rating: - Gruesome autobiography of British pathologist
As British Home Office Pathologist, Professor Keith Simpson spent forty years in the investigation of both famous and obscure murders. The violent death of King Ananda of Siam was one of his most famous cases. At the opposite end of the notoriety scale was an incident involving the murder of a Shoreditch girl whose sister flung a bread knife at her. As a pathologist, Simpson saw it all and wrote about it in clear, robust prose that does not spare his reader the gruesome details.
The introductory ... Read More
Rating: - Gruesome, gory but good reading
Not for the squeamish!!!!! A well-written, first-hand account of many murders, both famous and not so famous. Included are the stories of Haigh (the vampire killer), Dr. Bodkin Adams, Christie and Evans (posthumously pardoned) Lord Lucan (where is he??), the notorious Kray twins, the A-6 layby murder and the King of Siam. Also mentioned are several unusual deaths including a patient suffocated by an angry matron, a boy who bled to death after stepping on a glass during a drunken rampage and a pregnant woman ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant by a even more brilliant Professor
I was lucky enough, at the time when the book was written, to have not only read it when the author was alive but also to meet him during one of his Police "investigations" and he willing signed my copy but, without any blood on it!! Being a serving Police Officer then, as now, he willing signed my copy. This man had, in his lifetime, been to many a morbid and disgusting scene that the average person would have fainted at.
Rating: - Gruesome, fascinating autobiography of a police pathologist
As British Home Office Pathologist, Professor Keith Simpson spent forty years in the investigation of both famous and obscure murders. The violent death of King Ananda of Siam was one of his most famous cases. At the opposite end of the notoriety scale was an incident involving the murder of a Shoreditch girl whose sister flung a bread knife at her. As a pathologist, Simpson saw it all and wrote about it in clear, robust prose that does not spare his reader the gruesome details.
The introductory chapter ... Read More
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