The curious habits of Dr Adams
Robins, Jane2014
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In July 1957, the press descended in droves on the south-coast town of Eastbourne. An inquest had just been opened into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs Bobbie Hullett. She died after months of apparent barbiturate abuse - the drugs prescribed to calm her nerves by her close friend and doctor, Dr John Bodkin Adams. The inquest brought to the surface years of whispered suspicion that had swept through the tea rooms, shops and nursing homes of the town. The family doctor's alarming influence over the lives, deaths and finances of wealthy widows had not gone unnoticed - it was rumoured that he had been on a killing spree that spanned decades and involved three hundred suspicious cases. Superintendent Hannam of Scotland Yard was called in to investigate...
Main title:
The curious habits of Dr Adams / Jane Robins.
Author:
Robins, Jane, author
Imprint:
Leicester : Charnwood, 2014.
Collation:
392 pages (large print) : illustrations (black and white)
Notes:
Originally published: London: John Murray, 2013.
ISBN:
9781444821710 (hbk)
Local class:
364.15232092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1822590
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Stratford Library | Large print non-fiction | Available |