TWO MEN WERE ACQUITTED: The Trial and Acquittal of Doctor John Bodkin Adams.
Foreword by the late Doctor John Bodkin Adams written in 1978. Pp. x+222(last blank), 8 plates, appendices; med. 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on flaps and reverse, edges a trifle creased, backstrip lightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Secker & Warburg, London, 1984. First edition. *'On 19th December 1956 a fashionable Eastbourne doctor, a pillar of the Church and a respected member of local society, was arrested and charged with the murder of an eighty-year-old lady wo had been one of his patients. On 9th April 1957, in the space of forty minutes, Doctor John Bodkin Adams was found not guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey' [wrapper blurb]. Item #183784
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