The Anatomy Murders : : Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes / / Lisa Rosner.
Up the close and down the stair,Up and down with Burke and Hare.Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,Knox the man who buys the beef.-anonymous children's songOn Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Burke and Hare Murders
- Chapter One: The Corpus Delicti
- Chapter Two: The Anatomy Wars
- Chapter Three: Burking Invented
- Chapter Four: Sold to Dr. Knox
- Chapter Five: Based on a True Story
- Chapter Six: The Dangerous Classes
- Chapter Seven: Anonymous Subjects
- Chapter Eight: The Criminal Mind
- Chapter Ten: Day in Court
- Chapter Eleven: All That Remains
- Cast of Characters
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments