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<p><b>Judith Cook</b> (9 July 1933 – 12 May 2004) was an anti-nuclear campaigner, historical novelist, journalist and lecturer in theatre at the <a href="University_of_Exeter" title="University of Exeter">University of Exeter</a>. She wrote several mysteries based on the casebooks of Dr <a href="Simon_Forman" title="Simon Forman">Simon Forman</a>, an <a href="Elizabethan" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabethan">Elizabethan</a> doctor and <a href="Astrologer" class="mw-redirect" title="Astrologer">astrologer</a>.
</p><p>Through the columns of <i><a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s <a href="Women's_page" title="Women's page">women's page</a>, edited by <a href="Mary_Stott" title="Mary Stott">Mary Stott</a>, she founded the anti-nuclear organisation Voice of Women after the <a href="Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a> of 1962, at a time when the world seemed on the verge of nuclear war.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Casebook_of_Dr_Simon_Forman">Casebook of Dr Simon Forman</h4></div>
<ol><li><i>Death Of A Lady's Maid</i> (1997)</li>
<li><i>Murder at the Rose</i> (1998)</li>
<li><i>Blood on the Borders</i> (1999)</li>
<li><i>Kill The Witch</i> (1999)</li>
<li><i>School of the Night</i> (2000)</li></ol>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="John_Latimer">John Latimer</h4></div>
<ul><li><i>Dead Ringer</i> (2003)</li>
<li><i>Worm in the Bud</i> (2003)</li>
<li><i>Keeper's Gold</i> (2004)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_novels">Other novels</h4></div>
<ul><li><i>The Waste Remains</i> (1984)</li>
<li><i>The Slicing Edge of Death</i> (1993)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3></div>
<ul><li><i>Directors' Theatre: Sixteen Leading Theatre Directors on the State of Theatre in Britain Today</i> (1974)</li>
<li><i>National Theatre</i> (1976)</li>
<li><i>Cornish Walks and Legends</i> (1979)</li>
<li><i>Women in Shakespeare</i> (1980)</li>
<li><i>Apprentices of Freedom</i> (1981)</li>
<li><i>Portrait of a Poison: The <a href="2%2C4%2C5-T" class="mw-redirect" title="2,4,5-T">2,4,5-T</a> Story</i> (1982)</li>
<li><i>Shakespeare's Players</i> (1983)</li>
<li><i>When I Set Out for Lyonesse: Cornish Walks and Legends</i> (1984)</li>
<li><i>Close to the Earth: Living Social History of the British Isles</i> (1984)</li>
<li><i>Who Killed <a href="Hilda_Murrell" title="Hilda Murrell">Hilda Murrell</a>?</i> (1985)</li>
<li><i>Price of Freedom</i> (1986)</li>
<li><i>At the Sign of the Swan: Introduction to Shakespeare's Contemporaries</i> (1986)</li>
<li><i>Red Alert: Worldwide Dangers of Nuclear Power</i> (1986)</li>
<li><i>Backstage</i> (1987)</li>
<li><i>Whose Health Is It Anyway?</i> (1987)</li>
<li><i>An Accident Waiting to Happen</i> (1989)</li>
<li><i>Dirty Water</i> (1989)</li>
<li><i>Daphne: Portrait of <a href="Daphne_Du_Maurier" class="mw-redirect" title="Daphne Du Maurier">Daphne Du Maurier</a></i> (1992)</li>
<li><i>To Brave Every Danger: The Epic Life of <a href="Mary_Bryant" title="Mary Bryant">Mary Bryant</a> of Fowey</i> (1994)</li>
<li><i>Unlawful Killing: Murder of <a href="Hilda_Murrell" title="Hilda Murrell">Hilda Murrell</a></i> (1994)</li>
<li><i>Sleaze File...: and How to Clean Up British Politics</i> (1995)</li>
<li><i>The Golden Age of the English Theatre</i> (1996)</li>
<li><i>Singing from the Walls: The Life and Art of <a href="Elizabeth_Forbes_(artist)" title="Elizabeth Forbes (artist)">Elizabeth Forbes</a></i> (2000) (with Melissa Hardie and <a href="Christiana_Payne" title="Christiana Payne">Christiana Payne</a>)</li>
<li><i>Dr <a href="Simon_Forman" title="Simon Forman">Simon Forman</a>: A Most Notorious Physician</i> (2001)</li>
<li><i>The Year of the Pyres: <a href="2001_foot_and_mouth_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2001 foot and mouth crisis">The 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic</a></i> (2001)</li>
<li><i>Gill Watkiss - Paintings 1974-2002</i> (2002)</li>
<li><i>Pirate Queen: The Life of <a href="Gr%C3%A1inne_O'Malley" class="mw-redirect" title="Gráinne O'Malley">Grace O'Malley</a> 1530-1603</i> (2003)</li>
<li><i>Roaring Boys: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England</i> (2005)</li>
<li>"Priestley" Biography of <a href="J_B_Priestley" class="mw-redirect" title="J B Priestley">J B Priestley</a> (1997)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/may/15/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries">Obituary</a> from <i><a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/judith-cook/">Judith Cook at Fantastic Fiction</a></li></ul>
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