Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0755147146
Doctor Crippen's murder of his wife ranks among the most notorious crimes of the twentieth century. Richard Gordon skilfully recreates the chilling atmosphere of the murder - and how it shook respectable society to the core. Using the character as his case study, Gordon also reveals the conflicting suavity and savagery of the Edwardian age.
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0755131231
This harsh and gritty story of Florence Nightingale does little to perpetuate the myth of the gentle lady of the lamp. Instead, through the eyes of his impassioned narrator, Richard Gordon lays bare the truth of this complex and chilling character.
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0755147162
In this shrewd and witty novel, Victorian London for the poor is brought to life with compelling authority - hard, menial work; violence; prostitution; disease. A masterly evocation of the practice of medicine in 1888 - the year of Jack the Ripper - it is also a medical mystery. Why were his victims so silent and why so little blood?
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146980
Dr Grimsdyke was pleased to sit next to the luscious Lucy on a flight. Several hours in her company was bound to go well - despite Anemone waiting back home! As if juggling two women wasn't enough, the Jellybone sisters then enter the scene with a troupe of female contortionists. Grimsdyke falls headlong into a series of hilarious mishaps.
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146948
Richard Gordon's acceptance into St Swithan's came as no surprise. However, it was a shock to discover that, once there, he would have to work. Fortunately, life proved not to be all work and no play. This hilarious hospital comedy is for anyone who wonders what medical students get up to. Just don't read it on the way to the doctor's!
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755131096
The Dean of St Swithan's Hospital Medical School is struggling to avoid hypocrisy as he writes the obituary for his fearsome sparring partner, Sir Lancelot Spratt. Yet far from being a funereal and moribund tale, Doctor on the Brain is a fast-moving, hilarious comedy where the jokes are liberally dispensed and the mishaps all too common.
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755147006
The work-shy Dr Grimsdyke is still at St Swithan's. Nurses are hitching up their skirts in the name of fashion and the dean is almost certain he is to be knighted. And then a Rolls Royce pulls up with Sir Lancelot Spratt in it. Bored with retirement he has returned to invoke a clause in St Swithan's original charter and resume work.
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075514693X
In this hilarious romantic comedy, Richard Gordon develops a headache. It takes him a while to realise he is ill ? after all he is a doctor! Dr Pennyworth diagnoses jaundice and prescribes a spell in hospital. There, he falls in love with his very own Florence Nightingale. However he soon learns he has a rival and sets out to impress!
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146921
Now Dr Grimsdyke is qualified he finds practising medicine less congenial than anticipated. Porterhampton is suddenly rife with difficulties - as is being a waiter, or a writer. And writing obituaries is just plain depressing. Doctor in Clover finds the hapless Grimsdyke in a hilarious romp through misadventures, mishaps and total disasters.
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755130995
Richard Gordon is moving rapidly towards middle-aged lethargy. Desperately in need of an antidote, he signs on with a Steamboat Company. What follows is a hilarious tale of nautical diseases and assorted misadventures. He also becomes embroiled in mysteries - what is in the Captain's stomach remedy? And what happened to the previous doctor?
