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Burke & HareOwen Dudley Edwards

Burke & Hare

Owen Dudley Edwards
1980300 pages
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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.

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2010
    Birlinn Ltd · 320 pages · 9781841589855
  • Paperback · English · 1994
    Burkes and Hare
    Laurier Books Ltd. /AES · 294 pages · 9781873644256
  • Other · English · 2014
    Burke and Hare
    Birlinn, Limited · 9780857907530
  • Other · English · 2014
    Burke and Hare
    Birlinn, Limited · 320 pages · 9781780272177
  • Other · English · 1984
    Polygon · 300 pages · 9780904919271
MurderTrials (Murder)Trials, litigationCase studiesScotlandEnglish LawLocal historyNonfiction / Crime