Prescription for Murder : The True Story of Harold Shipman - Softcover

Whittle, Brian; Ritchie, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751529982 ISBN 13: 9780751529982

Publisher: Sphere, 2000

Synopsis

He was a pillar of the community, serving on local committees, donating prizes to the rugby club, organising charity collections. His patients thought the world of him: he was attentive, kind, never too busy to chat. Yet Dr Harold Frederick Shipman was also the most prolific serial killer the world has ever known, with between 200 and 300 victims. Quietly, for many years, the small, bespectacled GP was making unexpected house calls - and walking out leaving a dead body behind.
The murderous career of Dr Shipman only came to an end when police in Hyde, Greater Manchester, were called to investigate a forged will. Overnight, they found themselves embroiled in the biggest murder case in British history.
Substantially revised and updated since Shipman's suicide in prison, this is a compelling account of these monstrous crimes and of the man who committed them. The authors have had unparalleled access to friends, colleagues and patients. Their in-depth and authoritative investigation looks at how he killed, how he was able to get away with it for so long, and - most important of all - why.

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 Pages: 359 Publisher: Little own He was a pillar of the community serving on local Committees the PRIZES donating to the Rugby Club. Organizing charity collections of his patients thought the world of him: he was attentive. kind. never too busy to chat. Yet Dr Harold Frederick Shipman was also the most prolific serial killer the world has ever known. with between 200 and 300 victims. Quietly. for many years. the small. bespectacled GP was making unexpected house calls - and walking out leaving a dead body behind. The murderous career of Dr Shipman only came to an end when police in Hyde. Greater Manchester. were called to investigate a forged will. Overnight. they found themselves emoiled in the biggest murder case in itish history. Substantially revised and updated since Shipman's suicide in prison. this is a compelling account of these monstrous c...

Review:

Read this amazing review of systematic murder - and you'll never look at a doctor in quite the same way again (BIRMINGHAM Post)

It takes a book like this to bring home how truly evil he [Dr Shipman] was (Northern ECHO)

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0751529982
• ISBN 13: 9780751529982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448