Murder on the Home Front

Paperback Published on: 14/03/2013
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Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • ISBN: 9780751552041
  • Number of pages: 288
  • Dimensions: 200 x 130 x 22 mm
  • Weight: 246g
  • Languages: English

Customer Reviews

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Murder on the Home Front
An interesting read
A good companion book to Prof Keith Simpson's "Forty Years of Murder". I would not have complained if Molly Lefebure's book had been twice its 278 pages.
XYZ 04 REGENT
Murder on the Home Front
Brilliant read
Highly recommended. Makes you feel as though you are there with her at the inception of forensic science. It makes you realize there have alway been horrif... READ MORE
Bob57
Murder on the Home Front
Fascinating memoir of crime detection during World War II (albeit very much of its time!)
Molly Lefebure was a writer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. This fascinating memoir (first published in 1954) of her time working as secreta... READ MORE
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