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Corrupt Bodies

Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

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In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he’d gone from lowly assistant to running the UK’s busiest murder morgue. He couldn’t believe his luck.

What he didn’t know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins.

Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don’t ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems and worked alongside Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad - including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler.

This is a thrilling tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.

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Only got this today and I’m half way through, so far brilliant, I work in the industry and can relate to the story not the corruption!!! It’s soooooo good gonna get back to it now I’m wasting valuable listening time, get it now people seriously please get it now!!’

Brilliant

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Fascinating book and I hope Southwark's bosses are suitably ashamed at how they treated the author. I know slight details were changed but I remember one case he speaks about where he says in the book the victim wasn’t sexually assaulted but news reports from the trial said she was. I understand the need to alter details but if you are naming people I’m surprised this book says different than the trial.

In any case, if you are interested in death and forensics you will enjoy this book. Thank you to the author. Great book.

Very interesting

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What should have been a morbid topic this was written with respect for the deceased while being funny too. A very well balanced book and told with a very down to earth narrator.
Absolutely loved it and hope Paul Everett writes about his Fleet Street adventures.

Fascinating ,inspirational ,respectful and witty.

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Excellent. Well narrated and informative. Just a terrible shame the informer of wrong doings paid such a high price for doing the right thing .

Thoroughly enjoyed

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Brilliantly written and narrated, really interesting story. So many grim yet fascinating tales from 1980’s London.

Greatly enjoyed

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