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Burke & Hare

Owen Dudley Edwards

1980294 pagesabout 4–7 hours
1980
first published
  • 1980Polygon · 300 pages
  • 1984Polygon · 300 pages · ENGISBN 9780904919271
  • 2014Birlinn, Limited · ENGISBN 9780857907530
  • 2014Birlinn, Limited · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9781780272177
  • 1994Laurier Books Ltd. /AES · 294 pages · ENGISBN 9781873644256
  • 2010Birlinn Ltd · 320 pagesISBN 9781841589855

In nineteenth-century Scotland, two Irish laborers devised a scheme -- sell unclaimed corpses to the Edinburgh medical community. Their chief buyer was Dr. Robert Knox, whose personal ambition created a voracious need for more human corpses. However, Burke and Hare soon ran out of unclaimed bodies ... so they turned to grave-robbing and eventually murder as a money-making enterprise.

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