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Burke & Hare
Burke Hare
Author: Owen Dudley Edwards
In a boarding house in the West Port area of 1820's Edinburgh, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord £4 rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord and his friend - one William Hare and William Burke, both Irish - fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh anatomist. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781841589855
ISBN-10: 1841589853
Publication Date: 10/1/2010
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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