The Italian Boy
Subtitle: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: June 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780805075373
Subjects: London; Poor; History - General History; England; History; Murder - General; History: World; Murder; History / General; Case studies; Western Europe - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; 19th century; Body snatching
First sentence: George Beaman, surgeon to the parish of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, turned back the scalp of the corpse lying before him.