Murder on the Home Front
A True Story of Morgues, Murderers, and Mysteries during the London Blitz

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Reading through the reviews I’m shocked and amazed that people are complaining that a book written in the 1950s reflects the kind of views that were prevalent in the 1950s 😆 The cases are interesting, she is a very strong writer, and she doesn’t waste time pretending......more

Molly Lefebure was a remarkable woman. I just wish she'd let it show. I'm giving Murder on the Home Front four stars for its value as a primary source about living in London during World War II. Lefebure captures vividly what it felt like to go through the Blitz, and about the sheer hell of carrying......more

4,5 stars - English Ebook Wartime does not mean the absence of ordinary crimes. It is 1941. While the "war of chaos" rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below. One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, fore......more

Back in the early 60s I started to become an avid reader - mainly of non-fiction. All the paperbacks I picked up tended to be autobiographical stories about the adventures of doctors in Africa combatting local superstitions, or of adventurers and their escapades in the Spanish Civil War or the Secon......more