Murder on the home front
Subtitle: a true story of morgues ,murderers, and mysteries during the London Blitz
By: Molly Lefebure
Edition: First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781455576067
Copyright date: 1954
Subjects: Medical jurisprudence; History
Description: It is 1941. While the war of chaos rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below.  One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, 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 know 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 somber morgues to London's most gruesome crime scenes, Molly observes and assists as he uncovers the dark secrets that all murder victims keep.  With a sharp sense of humor and a rebellious spirit, Molly tells her own remarkable true story here with warmth and wit, painting a vivid portrait of wartime London.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 1954 by Heinemann Books. First U.S. edition published in 1955 by Lippincott. Published in 2013 by Sphere"--Title-page verso.