Burke & HareOwen Dudley Edwards
Burke & Hare
Owen Dudley Edwards · 1980
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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.
Book details
- Year
- 1980
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Birlinn, Limited
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781780272177
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