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Murder on the home front : a true story of morgues, murderers and mystery in the Blitz / Molly Lefebure.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Sphere, 2013.Description: [ix], 278 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780751552041 (pbk.)
  • 0751552046 (pbk.)
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Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1954. -Now a major TV series from the makers of Downton Abbey. -The remarkable memoir of Molly Lefebure, secretary to the Home Office's chief forensic pathologist during the Second World War.
Summary: The remarkable memoir of Molly Lefebure, secretary to the Home Office's chief forensic pathologist during the Second World War. 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. At 12 o'clock on a Spring day in a London Coroner's Court, famed forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson asks young journalist Molly Lefebure if she might like to become his secretary. Recalling the 'horror of secretarial work and secretarial young ladies', she turns him down flat, resolving to stick to twelve-hour days covering 'everything from Boy Scout meetings to the blitz'. By 3 o'clock that afternoon, curious about exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door, Molly has changed her mind. It is the beginning of an extraordinary adventure.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1954.

TV tie-in.

Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1954. -Now a major TV series from the makers of Downton Abbey. -The remarkable memoir of Molly Lefebure, secretary to the Home Office's chief forensic pathologist during the Second World War.

The remarkable memoir of Molly Lefebure, secretary to the Home Office's chief forensic pathologist during the Second World War. 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. At 12 o'clock on a Spring day in a London Coroner's Court, famed forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson asks young journalist Molly Lefebure if she might like to become his secretary. Recalling the 'horror of secretarial work and secretarial young ladies', she turns him down flat, resolving to stick to twelve-hour days covering 'everything from Boy Scout meetings to the blitz'. By 3 o'clock that afternoon, curious about exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door, Molly has changed her mind. It is the beginning of an extraordinary adventure.

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