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The Good Doctor (St. Martin's True Crime Library) [Mass Market Paperback]

Wensley Clarkson (Author)
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St. Martin's True Crime Library November 27, 2007
Fifty-five-year-old Dr. Harold "Fred" Shipman has 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 has no idea of the evil that lurked behind the friendly facade of the kindly doctor...

After thirty years of practice, Dr. Shipman's true nature was finally expoosed--that of a calculating killer who delivered his own perscription 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 question 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...


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About the Author

WENSLEY CLARKSON has written more than thirty books-which have sold more than a million copies worldwide-including the tabloid newspaper exposé 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.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime (November 27, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312982607
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312982607
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,190,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars How Much Do You Trust Your Doctor?, December 23, 2007
This review is from: The Good Doctor (St. Martin's True Crime Library) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the best book by Wensley Clarkson that I have ever read! The writing is so detailed and so well organized, that I had a very difficult time putting it down!

Clarkson relays the story of Fred Shipman who, in 2000, was convicted of 15 murders; deaths that occured on his watch as their doctor after he induced their untimely demise with overdoses of morphine. Although convicted of only fifteen, it is believed that Shipman is responsible for more than 350 deaths.

In addition, Clarkson does a marvelous job of giving readers an inside view to Shipman's family and tries to relay to the reader how, despite they are still living, they too are victims of this horribly depraved man.

I highly recommend reading this book if you enjoy true crime. Not only is it entertaining, but will serve as an eye-opener into how one should never place one hundred percent trust in their doctor.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Read, February 1, 2008
This review is from: The Good Doctor (St. Martin's True Crime Library) (Mass Market Paperback)
A well organized, well written book. I have been a nurse for 17 years and whenever I ever hear of a healthcare worker murdering those who depend on them so heavily, it just blows my mind! It just defies everything you were taught or learned.
HOPEFULLY, the medical establishment has learned something from stories like this, and have ways to police it more QUICKLY than they did Shipman's case.
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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It's the unthinkable!, June 22, 2004
This review is from: The Good Doctor (St. Martin's True Crime Library) (Mass Market Paperback)
The only reason that I am giving 4 stars is because the author did not list all the victims of Dr. SHipman's unsuspected reign of terror in Lancashire. In his long career, he probably killed at least 200 victims--men, women, children, for no apparent reason until he was stopped by the law. Sadly, I cannot stop thinking about all the victims who had dreams to see Israel, cruise, grow up, or old with their loved ones in Lancashire. Dr. Shipman was supposed to be respected and trusted with their lives; he killed his beloved patients without such motives at all. The book is an easy read unless you're trying to find out the victims and give them a proper memorial. This book is for those victims and their families! Maybe we can learn from what happened in Lancashire!
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There is a kind of poetic injustice in the fact that Fred Shipman, the intriguing subject of this book, really does exist. Read the first page
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computerized medical records, numerous victims
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Fred Shipman, Bianka Pomfret, Adrian Pomfret, Kathleen Grundy, High Pavement, Jim King, Ivy Lomas, Father Maher, Market Street, Harold Shipman, Primrose Shipman, General Medical Council, Bob Studholme, Preston Crown Court, Greater Manchester Police, Kathleen Wagstaff, Father Denis Maher, Hyde Cemetery, John Pollard, Justice Forbes, Nicola Davies, Vera Shipman, Winifred Mellor, Ann Ball, Joan Melia
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