Will Starling
Subtitle: a novel : the reckoning of Wm. Starling, Esq., a foundling, concerning monstrous crimes and infernal aspirations, with perpetrators named and shrouded infamies disclosed to light of day, as set down by his own hand in this year 1816
By: Ian Weir
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9781586422301
Subjects: Fiction; Murder; Surgeons; Grave robbing; Criminal investigation
Description: After years as a battlefield surgeon during the Napoleonic War, Will Starling returns to London in 1816 to build a civilian surgical practice. But when one of the grave-robbers who supplies him with cadavers for dissection is complicit in a murder, Will resolves to find out the truth.
Notes: First published in Canada in 2014 by Goose Lane Editions.