Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39084 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Inaacurate, biased book
I totally agree with the previous reviewer about this book. It was factually incorrect in many places, badly put together and there were so many digressions in the story it became boring to even try and follow the storyline. The author stating that people from Worksop have working class cockney accents was a joke - doesn't she know that people from Worksop do not have cockney accents. She also stated that the people of Worksop would more than likely spend their Christmases in working class pubs doing pub quizzes - how patronising is that? She also states that Bow Street magistrates court is an office (again factually incorrect).

She shows real vitriol for Neil Entwistle - clearly she was unable to be impartial when writing this book and that makes her a very poor author. Granted, what Neil Entwistle did was terrible but as an author she needs to be impartial.

I will not be buying anymore books written by Michele R. McPhee because she cannot write a factually correct book to save her life.

Wait for a book on this subject that has actually done some research. An insult to intelligent readers.
I will be honest; the only part of this book I read were the 5 or 6 pages which amazon allow you to read online when deciding whether to buy the book. However, I was so horrified by numerous inaccuracies in such a short amount of text, that I vowed never to buy this publication.

I was already skeptical, given that it was obviously a 'rush job' - rushed to the bookstands as soon as the jury had pronounced the word 'guilty'.

The author refers to Entwistle as having a 'working class, Cockney' accent. This untruth is an insult to anyone from the UK, and specifically England, as the author has clearly not bothered to do a basic amount of research in terms of English accents and dialects. Having listened to the two-hour telephone interview that Entwistle gave to Hopkington police, I can assure you that he is certainly not Cockney. Worksop, his home town, is nowhere even close to London. It's like saying someone is from the Bronx when they're actually from small town suburbia somewhere hundreds of miles away. I would also dispute the 'working class' tag, although lines can be more hazy and arguable where class is concerned. However I make this judgement based on seeing his parents' house, his parents' jobs and the fact that Neil is university-educated.

Speaking of his parents' jobs, Neil's father is a Labour Party councillor. I find it irritating that the spelling of "Labour" has been 'americanised' to become "Labor". To put into American terms, this is like changing the spelling of the Republican Party, or the Democrat Party, simply to suit the probable target market. Labour is the name of a political party and its spelling should therefore not be altered under any circumstances.

Any information I read among these pages, I had already found for myself doing a few quick google searches.

Having just read 'A Deadly Game' by Catherine Crier, this book on Entwistle is an insult to intelligent readers everywhere - on both sides of the Atlantic. Crier showed me how it should be done. This book is how it should not.

Sequel covering the double murder trial now orderable on this website
Ms. McPhee's book was published a day after the consequent double murder trial began but before a jury had even been selected. Through Lulu.com, I have published a sequel entitled "Neil Entwistle's Day In Court," now also orderable as a paperback on this website. My work covers the entire trial from its inception on June 2, 2008 until its conclusion on June 25, 2008 with convictions on all counts and an automatic sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole. It is a fascinating account and analysis of the double murder trial of a defendant who fled to England but was extradited back to the United States, composed (if I may say so myself) by a professional author of true crime stories, memoirs, and literary criticism.