Burke & Hare
By: Owen Dudley Edwards.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Mercat Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Burke, William, 1792-1829.; Hare, William, 1792?-1870?; Murder -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Case studies.; Trials (Murder) -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.
Other titles: Burke and Hare
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Previous ed.: Edinburgh : Polygon, 1981?