Harold Shipman - Prescription For Murder by Jean Ritchie - ISBN: 9780751529982
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Trusted doctor hid a monstrous secret: mass murder in plain sight.

Harold Shipman - Prescription For Murder

The true story of Dr Harold Frederick Shipman

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    26 August 2005

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Summary

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.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780751529982
ISBN-10:0751529982
Author:Jean Ritchie, Brian Whittle
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Sphere
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:26 August 2005
Weight:310g
Dimensions:195mm x 128mm x 30mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Read this amazing review of systematic murder - and you’ll never look at a doctor in quite the same way again

‘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 The Author

Jean Ritchie

Brian Whittle runs the Cavendish Press agency in Manchester that initially broke the Shipman Case; Jean Ritchie is an investigative journalist of thirty years’ of experience on national newspapers.

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