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Burke and Hare : The True Story Behind the Infamous Edinburgh Murderers by Owen Dudley Edwards is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. Burke and Hare make a profit of £3 and 10 shillings. After this encouraging start, Burke and Hare decide to suffocate another sickly tenant, so beginning the criminal career of the most notorious double act in serial killing that would only end on the gallows with the worst kind of betrayal. It’s a true tale of desperation and greed, of outsiders, ambition, corruption, love, and betrayal.

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Author

Owen Dudley Edwards

Publisher

Birlinn Ltd : [distributor] BookSource : [distributor] NewSouth Books : [distributor] NewSouth Books : [distributor] Booksite Afrika : [distributor] Casemate

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857907530

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Law, History