The Curious Habits of Dr Adams A 1950s Murder Mystery

Jane Robins has written an endlessly enjoyable book, which reads like an Agatha Christie Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday She tells the story with great brio, and a real feeling for the vanished social milieu in which Adams operated Lynn Barber, Sunday Times The case against Adams as a serial killer is a classic of British crime, but Jane Robins takes nothing for granted. She re-examines the evidence, consults modern experts (some of whom worked on the enquiry into the activities of Dr Harold Shipman) and presents her own perturbing conclusions. On the basis of this book, would you have convicted the curiously behaved Dr Adams? Saga Vividly characterised, wonderfully atmospheric and thoroughly riveting Daily Mail This is a compelling, very well-written story. It will feed the British love of a good murder mystery. Robins gives her own verdict in the final chapter but her readers are the jury Scotsman One to keep you alert on the beach Observer A compelling account of a murder mystery Oldie