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Murder on the Home Front

Molly Lefebure

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.

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : MAR 10, 2013
  • Imprint : Sphere
  • Page Extent : 288
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780751552041
  • Price : INR 650
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Molly Lefebure

Molly Lefebure was secretary to acclaimed forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson during the Second World War. Her memoir of her time at the Department of Forensic Medicine was originally published in 1955 as Evidence for the Crown. She went on to write children's books a biography of Coleridge and several novels. Now in her nineties she lives in Keswick Cumbria and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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