Burke & Hare1980
About this book
In nineteenth-century Scotland, two Irish laborers devised a scheme -- sell unclaimed corpses to the Edinburgh medical community. Their chief buyer was Dr. Robert Knox, whose personal ambition created a voracious need for more human corpses. However, Burke and Hare soon ran out of unclaimed bodies ... so they turned to grave-robbing and eventually murder as a money-making enterprise.
Details
- First published
- 1980
- OL Work ID
- OL2521482W
Subjects
MurderTrials (Murder)Trials, litigationCase studiesScotlandEnglish LawLocal historyNonfiction / CrimeBurke, WilliamHare, WilliamHistoryMedicineEdinburghTrials (murder), great britainSOCIAL SCIENCE / CriminologyHare, william , 1792?-1870Burke, william , 1792-1829Hare, william , 1792?-1870?