Murder on the Home Front (38 page)

Authors: Molly Lefebure

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8. The last execution by hanging in the United Kingdom was carried out in 1964, less than two decades after the book’s end. What might you infer about the author’s view of the death penalty from her depictions of executions?

9. At the end, when the author has to look for her replacement, she finds it difficult to find someone who’s not squeamish. Would you ever be able to take on a job like the one she did?

About the Author

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. She became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature before her death in 2013.

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Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Editor’s Note
Foreword
Chapter 1: A Good Job for Corpses
Chapter 2: My First Day in the Mortuaries
Chapter 3: Life in the Mortuaries
Chapter 4: My First Murder
Chapter 5: Tale of Two Lovers
Chapter 6: Murder on Waterloo Bridge
Chapter 7: Portrait of a Merry Widow
Chapter 8: Thoughts and Episodes of Spring
Chapter 9: “In the Spring a Young Man’s Fancy”
Chapter 10: Case of a Lifetime
Chapter 11: The Wigwam Murder
Chapter 12: The Gentle Art of Hanging
Chapter 13: Interiors
Chapter 14: Portrait of a Fairy
Chapter 15: Severe Testing of a Secretary
Chapter 16: Underworld
Chapter 17: Murder in a Fog
Chapter 18: War Work
Chapter 19: A Secret Weapon
Chapter 20: Body in a Hole
Chapter 21: Private Diary
Chapter 22: Boys of the New Brigade
Chapter 23: “’Tis Love, ’Tis Love That Makes the World Go Round…”
Chapter 24: Murder at “Charley Brown’s”
Chapter 25: Coming through the Rye
Chapter 26: The Black in the Smoke
Chapter 27: I Find a Successor
Photos
Acknowledgments
Questions for Further Discussion
About the Author
Newsletters
Table of Contents
Copyright

Copyright © 1954, 1955 by the beneficiaries of Molly Lefebure
Cover © 2014 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher is unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.

This Grand Central Publishing edition is published by arrangement with Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 100 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DY.

First published in Great Britain in 1954 by Heinemann Books.
First U.S. Edition published in 1955 by Lippincott.
Published in 2013 by Sphere.

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