
The Curious Habits of Dr Adams
A 1950s Murder Mystery
$45.05
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2014
Summary
“Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow’s sudden death…” - Daily Mail, 1957
In July 1957, the press descended in droves on the UK’s idyllic coastal 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848544727 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848544723 |
| Author: | Jane Robins |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Jane Robins has written an endlessly enjoyable book, which reads like an Agatha Christie
Jane Robins has written an endlessly enjoyable book, which reads like an Agatha Christie. - Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
She tells the story with great brio, and a real feeling for the vanished social milieu in which Adams operated. - Lynn Barber, Sunday TimesThe case against Adams as a serial killer is a classic of British crime, but Jane Robins takes nothing for granted. She re-examines the evidence, consults modern experts (some of whom worked on the enquiry into the activities of Dr Harold Shipman) and presents her own perturbing conclusions. On the basis of this book, would you have convicted the curiously-behaved Dr Adams? - SagaVividly characterised, wonderfully atmospheric and thoroughly riveting. - Daily MailThis is a compelling, very well-written story. It will feed the British love of a good murder mystery. Robins gives her own verdict in the final chapter but her readers are the jury. - ScotsmanOne to keep you alert on the beach. - ObserverA compelling account of a murder mystery. - OldieAbout The Author
Jane Robins
Jane Robins is a distinguished writer and journalist. Her previous book, The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath, was a critically acclaimed account of a gripping series of murders and the birth of forensic science.
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