Download or read book The Private Life Of Doctor Crippen written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Crippen's murder of his wife ranks among the most notorious crimes of the twentieth century. Richard Gordon skilfully recreates the chilling atmosphere of the murder - and how it shook respectable society to the core. Using the character as his case study, Gordon also reveals the conflicting suavity and savagery of the Edwardian age.

Download or read book The Private Life of Dr Crippen written by Richard Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Private Life Of Florence Nightingale written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This harsh and gritty story of Florence Nightingale does little to perpetuate the myth of the gentle lady of the lamp. Instead, through the eyes of his impassioned narrator, Richard Gordon lays bare the truth of this complex and chilling character.

Download or read book The Private Life Of Jack The Ripper written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this shrewd and witty novel, Victorian London for the poor is brought to life with compelling authority - hard, menial work; violence; prostitution; disease. A masterly evocation of the practice of medicine in 1888 - the year of Jack the Ripper - it is also a medical mystery. Why were his victims so silent and why so little blood?

Download or read book Doctor In The Swim written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Grimsdyke was pleased to sit next to the luscious Lucy on a flight. Several hours in her company was bound to go well - despite Anemone waiting back home! As if juggling two women wasn't enough, the Jellybone sisters then enter the scene with a troupe of female contortionists. Grimsdyke falls headlong into a series of hilarious mishaps.

Download or read book Doctor In The House written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Gordon's acceptance into St Swithan's came as no surprise. However, it was a shock to discover that, once there, he would have to work. Fortunately, life proved not to be all work and no play. This hilarious hospital comedy is for anyone who wonders what medical students get up to. Just don't read it on the way to the doctor's!

Download or read book Doctor On The Brain written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dean of St Swithan's Hospital Medical School is struggling to avoid hypocrisy as he writes the obituary for his fearsome sparring partner, Sir Lancelot Spratt. Yet far from being a funereal and moribund tale, Doctor on the Brain is a fast-moving, hilarious comedy where the jokes are liberally dispensed and the mishaps all too common.

Download or read book Doctor On The Boil written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work-shy Dr Grimsdyke is still at St Swithan's. Nurses are hitching up their skirts in the name of fashion and the dean is almost certain he is to be knighted. And then a Rolls Royce pulls up with Sir Lancelot Spratt in it. Bored with retirement he has returned to invoke a clause in St Swithan's original charter and resume work.

Download or read book Doctor In Love written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious romantic comedy, Richard Gordon develops a headache. It takes him a while to realise he is ill ? after all he is a doctor! Dr Pennyworth diagnoses jaundice and prescribes a spell in hospital. There, he falls in love with his very own Florence Nightingale. However he soon learns he has a rival and sets out to impress!

Download or read book Doctor In Clover written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Dr Grimsdyke is qualified he finds practising medicine less congenial than anticipated. Porterhampton is suddenly rife with difficulties - as is being a waiter, or a writer. And writing obituaries is just plain depressing. Doctor in Clover finds the hapless Grimsdyke in a hilarious romp through misadventures, mishaps and total disasters.

Download or read book Doctor At Sea written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Gordon is moving rapidly towards middle-aged lethargy. Desperately in need of an antidote, he signs on with a Steamboat Company. What follows is a hilarious tale of nautical diseases and assorted misadventures. He also becomes embroiled in mysteries - what is in the Captain's stomach remedy? And what happened to the previous doctor?

Download or read book Doctor And Son written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realising his honeymoon was not as anticipated, Simon Sparrow can at least look forward to home life. But that was before Dr Grimsdyke took to using it as a place of refuge from his various misdemeanours - especially from the actress demanding immediate asylum. And then Simon's godfather, Sir Lancelot Spratt, arrives. Chaos and mayhem follow.

Download or read book Doctor In The Nude written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Samantha Dougal is against nudity. The Dean of St Swithan's Hospital feigns indifference. Mrs Dougal's husband, however, is totally in favour. The jokes positively spill from this elegantly written and languorously witty tale that includes Sir Lancelot, the Queen, a new building, and the voluptuous daughter of the trendy hospital chaplain.

Download or read book Doctor At Large written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Richard Gordon's first job is at St Swithan's as a Junior House Surgeon. However, following some rather unfortunate incidents, promotion passes him by - going instead to his odious rival. Gordon cuts his losses and visits a medical employment agency. Anyway, he could always turn to general practice?

Download or read book Doctor In The Nest written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Lancelot Sprat is finding his faith in the British Health Service is taking a battering. It had already been a bad day - a call from Nairobi, a disagreement over the breakfast haddock, and a visit from Sir Lionel! All is further complicated by two ex-students and three ladies only too willing to satisfy a widower's sexual desires.

Download or read book Doctor In The Soup written by Richard Gordon and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This witty medical mystery sees the deeply ambitions MP for Churchford join the list of Richard Gordon's private patients. Gordon is surprised when the MP pays him a visit of particular delicacy, but agrees to refer him to a psychiatrist. The referral letter goes astray and turns up in the hands of the press!

Download or read book Crippen written by John Boyne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun. Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. Montrose has just set off on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner, anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed. An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, John Boyne's Crippen brilliantly reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one of Ireland's best young novelists.