Reviews for Forty years of murder

The average rating for Forty years of murder based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-10-28 00:00:00 Nancy Barnes Fascinating. Though published over forty years ago, this personal and professional history by the eminent forensic pathologist Keith Simpson made for a very interesting read. Simpson's style I found approachable, well-explained, and authoritative - as well as not without wit. The author's career spanned from the 1930s to the 1980s, hence this does not cover some of the more recent advances in forensic science or some of the more famous recent cases - however this gave the book an very interesting slant in terms of how crimes were solved by science in the middle part of the Twentieth Century. I also found the prose pleasantly old fashioned, albeit modern readers might find it a little dated in attitude. I would recommend this for anyone interested in the field - there are some illustrative and informative examples and case studies. Quite a fortunate wee find in a charity shop, this!

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-23 00:00:00 Mark Brunell Well-written case histories and memoirs of British Home Office Pathologist, Prof. Keith Simpson. Many fascinating cases in here. Hard to put down. The drawback here is that I had already read Molly Lefebure's EVIDENCE FOR THE CROWN -- she was his secretary and almost all the cases are the same.