Fleshmarket
By: Nicola Morgan.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Knox, Robert, 1791-1862 -- Fiction.; Medicine -- Fiction.; Physicians -- Fiction.; Poverty -- Fiction.; Scotland -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.
Notes: 14 & up.
Originally published: Great Britain : Hodder Children's Books, 2003.