The Good Doctor (St. Martin's True Crime Library) Book

Fifty-five-year-old Dr. Harold "Fred" Shipman had a noble dedication to his profession, winning the trust of his patients with ingratiating charm and an old-school bedside manner. In fact, he even made house calls-but his unsuspecting patients had no idea of the evil that lurked behind the friendly faade of the kindly doctor... After thirty years of practice, Dr. Shipman's true nature was finally exposed-that of a calculating killer who delivered his own prescription for death. Authorities eventually unearthed the shocking possibility that the fatherly physician had killed as many as 297 people. As body after body was exhumed from the local graveyard, the questions grew more disturbing. How could such a prolific killer remain undetected for so long? What motive drove this seemingly "good" doctor to his deadly obsession with murder? And just how many people did Harold Shipman kill?The search for answers would take investigators into the life of a man who forever changed the stereotype of the sweet country doctor...AUTHORBIO: WENSLEY CLARKSON has written more than thirty books-which have sold more than a million copies worldwide-including the tabloid newspaper expos Dog Eat Dog, biographies of John Travolta and Quentin Tarantino, plus fifteen best-selling true-crime books including Doctors of Death, Whatever Mother Says, Deadly Seduction, Slave Girls, Death at Every Stop, In the Name of Satan, The Railroad Killer, The Mother's Day Murder and Caged Heat. He has also written two highly acclaimed novels entitled Hitman and The Boss.Read More