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Owen Dudley Edwards
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.
| Publisher | Birlinn Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Pages | 320 |
| Format | paperback |
| Search language | simple |
| ISBN_10 | 1-841-58985-3 primary |
| ISBN_13 | 978-1-841-58985-5 primary |
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