from drmaf

Slightly disappointing. I read Keith Simpson's Classic 40 years of Murder many years ago and loved it, and I expected this to be in similar vein. However, I guess since Miss Lefubure was only Professor Simpson's secretary and not a qualified forensic scientist I should not have expected this. In ...

from aegan

I listened to the audiobook and the narrator had an annoying squeaky voice and over-dramatize British accent which definitely took away from the stories.

from jennybeast

Fascinating, in that it opens the door to life in the London blitz and to life as a coroner's assistant. It's a good read, and I found her tone appropriate, mostly. She's kind of callous about the dead, which makes sense under the circumstances, but some of these murders are heartwrenchingly horr...

from delphica

I haven't read Call the Midwife but I'm suspecting this re-release is intended to dovetail with that sort of interest in WWII/postWWII British life. This memoir was written by a woman who takes a job as a secretary/assistant to a coroner, with the implication that this position would have been re...

from bnbookgirl

This is Molly Lefebure's story about her time as a secretary to a forensic pathologist during WWII. It is such an interesting life she lead. Her story is filled with interesting crimes and is written with dry humor throughout. She is the first women secretary to ever have set foot into a mortuary...