The Body Snatcher

by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Body Snatcher
  • ISBN-13: 9781910296202
  • Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Subject: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)|19th century fiction
  • Publisher: Galley Beggar Press
  • Imprint: Galley Beggar Press
  • Publication Date: 15-10-2014
  • Format: p/b

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This atmospheric evocation of early 19th century Edinburgh is made all the more thrilling by the knowledge that it is a fictional account of a series of real murders and the astonishing, grisly career of Burke and Hare, men who killed people in order to provide corpses for dissection in anatomy lectures.
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This atmospheric evocation of early 19th century Edinburgh is made all the more thrilling by the knowledge that it is a fictional account of a series of real murders and the astonishing, grisly career of Burke and Hare, men who killed people in order to provide corpses for dissection in anatomy lectures.

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