Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases

Spilbury represented an age in which the professional work was evaluated by the worker according its excellence and not its retribution . Someday earlier than later a brilliant film maker (Neil Jordan perhaps?) will make an elegant and honest film about Spilbury and his work . Jose Marti said once: "To honor , it honors"

Observations such as the ones depicted in this book were the stuff of daily routine for Bernard Spilsbury, the man who dominated the field of criminal pathology in Britain for nearly half a century. This official biography is both an absorbing record of some of the most gruesome of the twentieth-century killings, and a fascinating insight into the psychology of a man whose metier was murder.Written with full access to his official and personal papers, this detailed study of Spilsbury the man, and Spilsbury the pathologist, must rank among the most important and valuable works on the most macabre side of crime.No one man has done more to further the prestige of forensic medicine and its application to law in the criminal courts.But such was his life, living with the horrors and tragedies of others, that he became a man obsessed with his own unhappiness: in December 1947 he took his own life.